A report into the circumstances surrounding the death of the baby at the centre of the Monaghan Hospital controversy is due to be published this afternoon.
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Monaghan Hospital: its mobile incubator was on loan
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The report was ordered after Ms Denise Livingstone was sent from Monaghan to Cavan by ambulance in an advanced stage of labour on December 11th.
She delivered a premature baby girl, Bronagh, en route to Cavan. Bronagh breathed and cried for most of the onward journey but died soon after arrival at Cavan. There was no incubator in the ambulance.
As yet, there is no details of what is contained in the report, but it is expected to highlight deficiencies in the protocols for dealing with emergencies at the Monaghan hospital in relation to emergency births.
According to reports in this morning's Irish TimesMonaghan Hospital did in fact have a mobile incubator for use in ambulances, but at the time of the incident it had been on loan to Cavan Hospital and had not been returned.
A source quoted in this morning's report said no equipment would move between hospitals without the board of the hospital knowing about it and that, consequently, it would be the responsibility of the board to make sure the hospital was properly equipped to keep to the protocol.