Hospital radiographer didn't answer calls about injured baby as 'ringtone down'

A radiographer at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda who failed to respond to repeated efforts to contact him to carry out an urgent scan on a seven-month-old baby with a serious head injury has had his registration suspended for three months.

An inquiry held last November by CORU – the regulatory body of health and social care professionals – heard evidence that Mr Owoh had failed to respond to numerous calls and texts requiring him to carry out an urgent scan on the baby boy on July 24, 2022. The inquiry chairperson, Shane McCarthy, said the committee was satisfied that Mr Owoh had left the hospital early in circumstances where he had failed to obtain any permission to do so. Dr McCarthy noted that contradictory excuses had been provided by Mr Owoh about his reason for leaving the hospital early.

A senior radiographer who was on-call from home, Sarah Tully, gave evidence that she could not believe it when she noticed Mr Owoh driving out of the hospital in his car at around 5am as she was responding to a call to return to Our Lady of Lourdes. Mr Owoh was issued with a written warning in October 2022 and had been removed from “on call” duties until the conclusion of the CORU inquiry. The inquiry committee said the radiographer’s misconduct included “failures of follow-through, communication, continuity with patient care and inadequacies in team work.”

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