Maternity units to close after all?
other emergency meeting of the North Eastern Health Board
(NEHB) is scheduled for this morning (Thursday 15 February) after
the CEO of the NEHB announced that insurers were still refusing
cover on the maternity units at Louth and Monaghan County
Hospitals.
Thousands of people protested at the NEHB's threat to close the
units. In response to this outcry, the NEHB last week mandated
the CEO, Paul Robinson, to appoint the four extra consultants
needed to meet the stipulation of the College of Obstetricians
and the insurers that each unit have three consultants.
``However no consultants have been appointed since,'' reports Sinn
Féin Louth Councillor Arthur Morgan, ``and it appears that none of
the three registrars, any and all of whom would be qualified to
take these consultancy positions in Louth, have even been
approached by the CEO.
``It has to be asked on whose agenda is the CEO working. It would
appear that he is directly flouting the decision of the Board to
appoint the necessary consultants. Did the CEO do this with the
acquiescence of Minister Mícheál Martin, or does he have a
separate, personal agenda?''
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