Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

In so far as the second patient is concerned, the HSE has indicated that she was admitted on the patient administration system at 2.11 p.m., first received morphine within 20 minutes and was administered additional doses of the drug after that time. She also received one-to-one special nursing care prior to her admission to theatre and afterwards.

This afternoon, the HSE personnel involved met with medical staff at the hospital. The division of plastic and maxillofacial surgery met with the executive management board, the membership of which includes three consultant clinicians including the chairman of the consultant medical staff, general manager and the director of nursing. Arising from this, the HSE has advised that all parties concerned regret the potential for misrepresentation consequent upon the leaking of correspondence, subsequently interpreted out of context and without the consent of the parties concerned.

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