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Fri 03 Mar 2008Reports on the health service
APOLOGIES HAVE been offered by the Minister for Health Mary Harney and the chief executive of the Health Service Executive Prof Brendan Drumm to nine women who received the all-clear for cancer at Portlaoise hospital and were later found to have the disease.
Investigators blamed poor quality equipment and inadequate reports for the mistakes made. And a systemic weakness of governance, management and communication was identified within the HSE. But no single individual was named or blamed.
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