The details are contained in the latest edition of the Medical Independent which also understands that a review of hygiene standards at the Clonmel health facility is set to be carried out.
South Tipp General Hospital which provides acute general and maternity services doesn't have its own MRI scanner but there are routine scanner slots allocated at Waterford Regional Hospital for South Tipp's patients.
However due to insufficient capacity in Waterford a spokesperson for the Health Service Executive told the Medical Independent that emergency MRIs for patients referred by the Clonmel Health facility are carried out at private hospitals.
Around 10 patients a month are treated under this system and last year the HSE spent 32 thousand euro on the private scans.
Meanwhile the Medical newspaper is also reporting that over the coming months South Tipp General STGH is set to review all aspects of hygiene standards in Clonmel.
According to the paper it comes on the back of an Executive Board meeting in December during which the hospital's general manager was reportedly “appalled” at hygiene standards during a walkabout of the facility.
