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No local deliveries in Carndonagh
21.02.08
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen Independent
FEARS that pregnant women from Inishowen may have to
give birth at Carndonagh District Hospital this
summer appear to have lessened this week after the
matron of the hospital said she did not believe such
a practice could take place.
Speaking to the Inishowen Independent, the Acting
Matron of Carndonagh District Hospital, Kathleen
Smyth, allayed concerns that expectant mothers may
be required to have their babies at the Inishowen
hospital, because of a predicted spike in the
birthrate in the county in the summer. |
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Her comments come
following rumours locally that a baby boom expected
this summer could result in a huge strain in
resources at the Maternity Unit in Letterkenny
General Hospital and might see babies delivered
again in some of the county’s regional hospitals. It
is believed that the rumours have |
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prompted fears among
local women. “I can’t see it happening. The
equipment needed to deliver babies is not here
anymore, and I doubt it could be in put in place in
time for a ‘baby boom’ in the summer,” the
Carndonagh Matron said. She also added that it has
been over a decade since the Carndonagh District
Hospital had a Maternity Unit and while it was true
that occasionally babies had been delivered at the
hospital during the last ten years. These were
emergency births by mothers who came to the hospital
because they did not believe they would make it to
Letterkenny General before giving birth. |
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