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Tuesday 22 September 2020
Many neonatal units have no isolation facilities to deal with coronavirus patients.
Complaints are on the rise amid legislative changes and growing global awareness of gender-related issues.
All six babies are healthy.
Midwives didn’t pick the job for the money, but they want their skills to get the same recognition as other healthcare professionals, Maeve Gaynor writes.
The Health Minister called her “a leading voices for women’s rights”.
Jacinda Ardern becomes just the second world leader to give birth while in office.
Strict new Covid-19 measures are now in effect in the capital – here’s what they mean for you.
We spoke to England international Rachael Burford about some of the key issues in women’s rugby.
The National Maternity Hospital says it is open to another review, but not of the type proposed by the minister.
The number of teenage mothers has fallen by 50% between 2005 and 2015.
Half of the complaints were about staff behaviour and three were about the care received.
Just 7% of all surgeons in Ireland are women.
Health Minister Simon Harris said it is ‘regretted’ that it took such a long time for families to be heard on their babies’ deaths.
Minister Simon Harris has said that a public ownership option is possible for the hospital.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is seeking his own removal as chair of Holles Street.
Health Minister Simon Harris has insisted the hospital will be independently run.
Addressing doctors today, Minister Harris sought to provide assurances on the project.
It was claimed that 300 people attended today’s lunchtime protest outside the Department of Health.
Dr. Peter Boylan says the minister must quiz the Sisters of Charity.
The Department of Health has insisted the new hospital will be independently run.
Little Sean Kelly-Murray was the first to arrive.
The operating theatres, staff facilities and the storage of sterile supplies were all criticised.
Electrical fires are common in the Iraqi capital and elsewhere across the country because of shoddy maintenance and poor wiring.
A new report into maternity services says there are a number of reasons.
Babies of mothers who gain more than 11kg between pregnancies have about a 50% greater risk of their baby dying in the first four weeks of life.
Dil Wickremasinghe writes about how she was treated by doctors when she opted for a home birth.
You can live without sleep, but you cannot live without coffee, writes Claire Micks.
Planning permission for three new sites at major adult teaching hospitals will be submitted in the next 18 months.
There has been a 36% increase in the number of twins born in Ireland over the period of a decade.
Parents’ concerns were addressed in only a minority of maternity cases assessed in a new HSE review.
The employee says the insurance company said ‘bring it on’ when she said she would go to the Equality Tribunal.
One woman’s diagnosis of septicaemia was missed.
The woman had fragments of her ovary frozen before undergoing chemotherapy at the age of 14.
The news that complex surgery will no longer be performed at Portlaoise follows last month’s highly critical HIQA report into the standard of care at the hospital.
Maternity staff are being asked to deal with far, far more births than they can safely handle in hospitals up and down the country.
The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has spoken out about the findings in HIQA’s report on the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.
The Minister for Health met with bereaved parents last night to hear their stories.
The newborn baby died at the maternity unit in the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
“You’re waiting for the cry and it doesn’t arrive.”
Dil Wickremasinghe, since she has become pregnant, has found the maternity system is fraught with fear and discourages women from making decisions about the birthing process.
IT’S A QUESTION that has been asked throughout the pandemic, but which has been raised again recently after the Oliver Bond Street party – would you call the Gardaí on your neighbours if you saw they broke Covid-19 restrictions on mass gatherings?
In the UK, junior minister for policing Kit Malthouse suggested that people should report their neighbours to the police if they’re concerned about gatherings that break the rules.
At the moment, Dublin is at Level Three which means that you can have visitors from one other household to your home or garden; while the rest of the country is at Level Two, which means you can have six visitors from up to three households to your home or garden.
So we’re asking you: Would you call the Gardaí if you saw your neighbours break Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings?
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