Babies, parents and Cork University Maternity Hospital may suffer without fetal anomaly scan

Dr Keelin O’Donoghue of CUMH has serious concerns about the failure to routinely offer a fetal anomaly scan to all women attending for antenatal care, writes Catherine Shanahan

TRAUMATIC, distressing, inappropriate care, potential litigation — Dr Keelin O’Donoghue does not mince her words in a hard-hitting letter to 10 senior clinicians and managers within the local and regional organisations relevant to Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

As the hospital’s lead clinician for obstetric ultrasound and foetal medicine, she has serious concerns about the ongoing failure to routinely offer a foetal anomaly scan to all women attending for antenatal care.