"We are fighting to treat the living and the dead."
(Source: www.pixabay.com)Four consultant pathologists have revealed that dead bodies have been left lying on trolleys at University Hospital Waterford because the mortuary does not have proper storage facilities.
The doctors have issued a damning letter after bodies were stored on corridors with bodily fluids leaking on to the floors.
The letter says this has caused "unspeakable trauma" to the families of those who have died.
Planning permission for a new mortuary has been approved however there is no funding available.
Matt Shanahan, who is the PRO for Health Equality for the South East, says the hospital badly needs new facilities;
"Just in terms of the money, it's only €5,600,000, it's less than half a per cent of the National Children's Hospital overspend, money that should have been sequestered and given to this hospital more than six years ago. We are fighting down here to treat the living and the dead unfortunately, and the fight goes on."
