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Claims Coombe trying to silence critic over vaccines Hospital seeking to ‘threaten’ consultant Deirdre Murphy, husband writes to Minister about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 2:31 Tom Fahey, a professor of general practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, has written to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly complaining about the hospital’s trea...

Coombe vaccine controversy rumbles on with flurry of letters Fallout from Covid-19 jabs for staff relatives sparks criticism and counter-criticism about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 5:31 Prof Michael O’Connell, master of the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital on Cork Street, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Your Web Browser may be out of d...

Consultant tells board of ‘serious errors of judgment’ at Dublin maternity hospital

In her April 7th letter, Prof Murphy said the master has “overall responsibility for the events relating to the vaccination of family members within the hospital and in a consultant’s home”. “This behaviour has been brought to the attention of the Medical Council and is likely to warrant a review process. He needs to stand aside in the best interests of the hospital,” she wrote. “It is the board’s responsibility to hold Dr O’Connell accountable for his ac...

Local gardaí or fire brigade staff were not offered leftover Covid-19 vaccines by doctors in the Coombe Hospital who gave the jabs to their own families, an independent review revealed yesterday. Coombe master Prof Michael O Connell, who was among doctors who gave left-over Covid-19 vaccines to own family members, told the review he thought of offering them to local gardaí or fire brigade staff but did not suggest it to colleagues. Prof O Connell – referred to a consultant C – in the rev...

Coombe doctor brought Covid-19 vaccines home for family, review finds Dublin maternity hospital publishes lawyer’s report on vaccination of staff relatives Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 16:23 Updated: Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 18:10 The Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times   A medical consultant at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital took doses out of the hospital to vaccinate family members at home, a review of vaccinations by the m...

Dublin maternity hospital holds independent review given ‘serious nature’ of incident

The hospital said 37 people, including GPs and “members of other vulnerable groups” received excess doses. At Temple Street children’s hospital, an “administrative error” was blamed for a number of staff on maternity leave receiving vaccines before other colleagues working in the hospital. The board of the Coombe hospital met on Monday night to discuss controversy around the maternity hospital administering Covid-19 vaccines to non-frontline healthcare workers, includin...

Coombe board to discuss giving of Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff Stephen Donnelly spoke to hospital chairman about controversy about leftover doses Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 11:54 Updated: Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 13:38   The board of directors of the Coombe Hospital is to discuss the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff a meeting later on Monday. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly spoke to chairwoman of the Dublin maternity hospital’s board Mary ...

The Dublin hospital "deeply regrets" it but they would have been "discarded" had they not been used.