\u201cSurely it is reasonable to assume that any parent who may have lost a child is now
wondering whether their child was actually alive. Was the hospital doctor wrong or
was the scan machine working properly on the day?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know from published figures that 1 in 4 women have miscarriages.<\/p>\n
\u201cNowhere in the extensive coverage and excuses from the HSE, the Hospitals or the
medical professions has anyone mentioned the trauma that many of these women
are now going through in the light of the publicity surrounding these baby diagnosis
cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am calling for the Government and the Health Service Executive to establish a
hotline and make counselling services available throughout the state, if needed, for
many of these women who have miscarried or lost children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the light of the information surrounding the misdiagnosis and failure of child
scanning equipment emerging, Tallaght based Sinn F\u00e9in Councillor and Dublin Mid
Leinster Regional Health Forum Member Se\u00e1n Crowe has called for the establishment
of a hotline and Counselling Service to be made available to women who have
miscarried or lost children.<\/p>\n
Councillor Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cMelissa and Michael Redmond are to be commended for going public about the
traumatic experience which almost led to the death of their baby. It was Melissa\u2019s
instincts and good sense in seeking a second opinion that prevented a tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are now further cases emerging where faulty machines or scanners led to
mistakes being made in determining whether children were alive or dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout all the coverage no one is talking about the effect this having on those
others mothers who were diagnosed under the same procedure and who have lost
children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}