Dublin hospital is ‘failing to meet the specific needs’ of newborns requiring intensive care, doctors say
Six paediatric intensive care doctors in CHI Temple Street warned CHI management about 'major vulnerabilities' in the critical care arrangements for newborns. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireDublin’s three maternity hospitals and Cork University Hospital each have a neonatal intensive care unit for premature and very ill newborns, managed by neonatology consultants.
Aoife Johnston inquest: Limerick hospital was ‘not a safe environment’ for patients on night teen diedNeonatal project allowed ‘to slip into abeyance . . . not by an active decision but through neglect and apathy’ “We believe that the current model of care has passed a threshold of foreseeability for adverse outcome,” the letter said.
David Cullinane, Sinn Féin’s health spokesman, said “the absence of adequate neonatal facilities and ICU facilities obviously does raise concerns”.
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