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Consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist Dr Declan Egan, who practises at University Hospital Galway and runs the private Galway Fertility Unit in Rahoon, should have sought the consent of a Galwaywoman before he clipped both her fallopian tubes but argues his action was medically justified, a fitness to practice enquiry was told this week.

A Medical Council fitness to practise committee has adjourned an inquiry into an allegation that a Galway doctor carried out a fertility procedure without the patient’s consent.

Four board members of the Galway Roscommon University Hospitals Group have been called on to absent themselves from a meeting today (Thursday) to discuss the HIQA report into the death of Savita Halappanavar because they are senior managers at UHG.

The board of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospital Group are awaiting the publication of the HIQA report into the death of Savita Halappanavar at University Hospital Galway (UHG) in October last year before a decision will be made as to what action, if any, will be taken against clinicians charged with her care.

A lunchtime protest against the Government’s plans to legislate for abortion was staged at Castlebar’s Market Square on Wednesday.

Two Castlebar town councillors have called for the introduction of legislation following the death of a Westport dentist at University Hospital Galway on October 28.

A Mullingar GP was found guilty of professional misconduct at a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry in Dublin on Wednesday (October 17) for being drunk on his way to work.

A GP who crashed and rolled his car off the M6 motorway was banned from driving for four years this week (May 23) after he was convicted of refusing to provide a sample to gardaí.

A doctor who is living in Kilkenny but working in Galway University Hospital, has denied sending inappropriate texts and emails to his female colleagues.

A UHG DOCTOR accused of sending inappropriate texts and email pictures to female colleagues has denied wrongdoing and says he believes one of his accusers may have had a psychological or psychiatric disorder.