Listen Back: Local Senator highlights need for more pathologists. A local senator has highlighted the need for more pathologists across the country.
Moreover, Monaghan Senator Robbie Gallagher said the grieving families are increasingly having to delay funerals for relatives; because of hold-ups in carrying out post-mortems in multiple counties.
Furthermore, around 6,000 post-mortems carried out in Ireland annually; ordered by coroners after a sudden, unexplained, violent or unnatural death.
Senator Gallagher told Maitiú Monaghan what impact the situation is having across the region.