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Maternity closure 'would put lives at risk'
30/05/2008
The NHS has been warned that closure of a Northern Ireland maternity unit would put mothers and babies at risk.
Lagan Valley Hospital's maternity unit is set for closure, though health practitioners have warned this would further stretch a system already at "breaking point".
Joy Poots, the chair of the Royal Jubilee Maternity Liaison Committee and the Regional Group of Maternity Liaison Committees, said that the situation in Northern Ireland is already at a "critical" point and that the system is at risk of "meltdown".
Ms Poots commented: "The hospitals cannot cope with any additional births. Any increased pressure as a result of the desire to cut costs will have severe health and safety implications for patients."
Chairman of Lisburn city council's Corporate Services Committee Councillor Bill Gardiner-Watson has been campaigning on behalf of the unit, agreeing that lives could be endangered by the closure.
A report by the Royal College of Midwives recently revealed that NHS trusts are cutting jobs in the area, despite rising birth-rates and midwives having to run from room to room to care for different women in labour.
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Lagan Valley Hospital's maternity unit is set for closure, though health practitioners have warned this would further stretch a system already at "breaking point".
Joy Poots, the chair of the Royal Jubilee Maternity Liaison Committee and the Regional Group of Maternity Liaison Committees, said that the situation in Northern Ireland is already at a "critical" point and that the system is at risk of "meltdown".
Ms Poots commented: "The hospitals cannot cope with any additional births. Any increased pressure as a result of the desire to cut costs will have severe health and safety implications for patients."
Chairman of Lisburn city council's Corporate Services Committee Councillor Bill Gardiner-Watson has been campaigning on behalf of the unit, agreeing that lives could be endangered by the closure.
A report by the Royal College of Midwives recently revealed that NHS trusts are cutting jobs in the area, despite rising birth-rates and midwives having to run from room to room to care for different women in labour.
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