Written answers
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Department of Health
Death Certificates
Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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340. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied); if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61091/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Health has been in contact with the RCSI Hospital Group which covers Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. The Hospital Group advises that it may be several weeks before the post mortem report is available - if toxicology tests are required this will lengthen the process. A death cannot be registered until a post mortem report is received. I am advised that queries relating to post mortem results should be made to the relevant Coroner’s Office, rather than to the hospital involved.
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