Portiuncula University

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The Rotunda Hospital has indicated it will be in a position to provide abortion services, provided it is given the necessary resources by the Government. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Abortions will be free but some patients will have to pay for related drugs

Patients not covered by medical cards who receive abortion services will have to pay for the cost of pain relief drugs and antibiotics under draft pro(...)

Eimear Grennan: ‘Why did something like this happen twice?’ Photograph: Eimear Grennan
Women should not be ‘treated like cattle going through a chute’

A woman who suffered complications during the birth of her two sons at Portiuncula University Hospital says the HSE must ensure the recommendations of(...)

Warren and Lorraine Reilly from Loughrea who lost two children while attending Portiuncla Hospital. Photograph: Andrew Downes
‘When things went wrong they simply weren’t capable’

The father of two baby girls who died during their delivery at Portiuncula University Hospital has called for the recommendations of a report into mat(...)

Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe.Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Multiple failures identified in report into baby deaths at Galway hospital

A report into maternity services at Portiuncula University Hospital has identified multiple serious failures, including staffing issues, a lack of tra(...)

Eoghan Dunne was referred to Portiuncula hospital with fever in 2012. Over a 12-hour period there was a progressive deterioration in his condition. He developed sepsis and multi-organ failure and will require 24-hour care for the rest of his life. Photograph: RTÉ Investigates
HSE apologises over failures in care of boy left brain damaged

The HSE has apologised to the family of a boy left severely brain damaged after what it admitted were failures in care provided to him at Portiuncula (...)