Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is one of seven around the country where X-rays may have been misread.
The Irish Times reports today that thousands of X-rays and other scans have been reviewed and hundreds of patients recalled after errors were discovered in the work of three locum radiologists employed by the Health Service Executive.
The worst affected hospital was Bantry in Cork, where 4,388 scans and X-rays taken between May and September 2013 were reviewed and 50 patients recalled, with one of them given a late cancer diagnosis as a result of the mistakes made.
The locum who worked in Bantry went on to work in a number of other hospitals, including the Lourdes. As a result, the Drogheda hospital is carrying out preliminary audits of his work to see if X-rays were correctly assessed.
In 2008, the HSE reviewed more than 6,000 X-rays and scans of a radiologist in the Lourdes Hospital.
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