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Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly cut the ribbon on a new Ambulatory Gynaecology clinic in Sligo University Hospital on Friday.

The Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise recently honoured and celebrated midwives and the crucial care contribution to women and babies to mark International D...

‘No guarantee’ that CPO would succeed with 300 year lease, says Donnelly

Updated / Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021 17:34 The results indicate a link to the B117 variant of Covid Six cases of stillbirth and one case of second trimester miscarriage have been caused by Covid-19 since January, according to the RCPI Faculty of Pathology and the Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. A statement released this afternoon said: "There have been six cases of stillbirth and one case of second trimester miscarriage caused by SARS-CoV2 placentitis since January 2021 in Ireland. "The...

The director of the HSE's National Women and Infants Programme has said it is "more important" that pregnant women protect themselves from Covid-19 than the rest of the population, but he does not think all pregnant women should be automatically vaccinated.

Move pregnant women up vaccine list, says master of Rotunda Information on stillbirths ‘very much preliminary’, further evidence required – HSE Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 09:07 Updated: Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 11:05 The HSE issued an alert after coroners identified coronavirus infection of the placenta as a factor in four stillbirths in January and February   The master of the Rotunda, Prof Fergal Malone has repeated a call for pregnant women to be moved up the vaccination priority list. “Pu...

Two of the stillbirths were included in Nphet’s daily mortality figures on Thursday evening. Meanwhile, while international experience showed it was “not unusual” for Covid-19 to cause placental infection, stillbirth was an “unusual complication”, Prof Peter McKenna, head of the HSE women and infants health programme, told The Irish Times. The fact four stillbirths had occurred in a short time and among the small population of women with Covid-19 had raised concerns, prompting the HSE...

10 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Clare this evening with 462 new cases confirmed nationwide. Clare’s incidence rate of 146.4 per 100,000 people is the tenth lowest in the country. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 39 additional deaths related to COVID-19. 10 of these deaths occurred in March, 12 occurred in February, 13 […]

Obstetricians have been asked to be on alert following four stillbirths in pregnant women infected with Covid-19 which could potentially be linked to the virus.