Despite an announcement earlier this month that the HSE was to lift a ban on partners of pregnant women attending the maternity unit for 20-week scans, Wexford General Hospital will still not be admitting partners amid Covid concerns, it has emerged.
A national campaign on the issue saw the practice of not allowing partners to attend important scans as inhumane as in several cases, it resulted in expectant mothers being given bad news on their own and then having to relay this news to their partners waiting in the hospital car park.
While in other parts of the country, expectant fathers and partners will be allowed to attend the anomaly scan, mothers giving birth at Wexford General will be forced to go it alone in terms of their scans, as the Ireland East Hospital Group states that Wexford, St Luke s and the Regional Hospital in Mullingar are not in the position to accommodate partners.
Full capacity protocol implemented at Mullingar hospital following admission of a lot of seriously ill patients
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The Regional Hospital Mullingar’s emergency department and hospital is extremely busy and have admitted a lot of seriously ill patients with a variety of complex healthcare needs.
A spokesperson for Ireland East Hospital Group has said; We apologise for the distress or inconvenience caused to patients or their loved ones who are experiencing long wait times. The Full Capacity Protocol has been implemented our consultants are doing additional ward rounds to facilitate discharges and we are working with the community to discharge patients where it is appropriate to the community.