This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM
Minister for Heath Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is being urged to make a statement on future of maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital.
It follows the completion of 5 reviews into maternity care earlier this month, which raised a number of issues, and called for the transfer of high risk pregnancies.
Roscommon/Galway Claire Kerrane has written to the Minister, asking her to instruct the HSE to prepare a roadmap to restore full maternity services at the Ballinasloe hospital.
Sinn Féin Deputy Kerrane says communication needs to be more forthcoming:
