MLA calls for ministerial investigation

AN SDLP MLA plans to call on the newly installed Minister for Health, Edwin Poots, to launch a new investigation into issues highlighted by the Western Health Trust’s internal audit.

Pat Ramsey, who liaised heavily with the O’Kane family at the time of their daughters death also plans to ask for a review into all related H1N1 swine flu cases.

The MLA said: “I am extremely concerned at the issues raised by the report in the Sentinel and in particular about the issues raised by the internal audit carried out by the Trust.

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“The distress and trauma will again be revisited on the families involved in these cases and they will be thinking of what could have been.

“I will be calling on the Health Minister to initiate a further investigation to the allegations made in the report and also for a review of all related cases in light of the facts uncovered by this story.

“This raises serious questions about accountability and information sharing by the Western trust, this is something that must be addressed-it is essential that we get to the bottom of this and ensure that it never happens again.”