A complicated delivery

Dara Gantly on the continued complications behind the delivery of our new National Maternity Hospital The delivery of the new National Maternity Hospital at the St Vincent’s Hospital campus would certainly seem to qualify as a post-term pregnancy, with the due date for a ‘revised’ deal now extended to the end of the month. But as we all know, such extended gestations can bring their own risks, and even end up with an NICU admission! After weeks of controversy — fuelled by the principled stands taken by a number of high-profile clinicians, the Dáil recess and perhaps an otherwise slow…