Maternity hospital appealed for help over severe disruption caused by marathon events

The State’s main maternity hospital appealed for help from the Health Minister over severe disruption caused by events like the Women’s Mini-Marathon and Dublin City Marathon.

The master of Holles Street Hospital said there had been “innumerable circumstances” where patients and staff had been unable to get to the hospital.

He said they were often redirected at barriers and forced on a “much more circuitous route” with one incident causing a near miss with a patient.

In a letter to Dublin’s Lord Mayor in 2023, Professor Shane Higgins said he was worried about a repeat and the possible impact on “health and safety.”

He wrote: “Such an event occurred where a patient needed to be transferred from the National Maternity Hospital to St Vincent’s for immediate care.

“[For the] staff called in to the hospital and organising for the patient to be transported out proved to be enormously problematic.”

Professor Higgins said he was copying his letter to the Health…

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