The Rotunda Hospital, as both a maternity hospital and also as a training centre (affiliated with Trinity College Dublin) is notable for having provided continuous service to mothers and babies since inception, making it the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. It is estimated that over 300,000 babies have been born there. Criticism In 2000 the Rotunda was one of two Dublin maternity hospitals found to have illegally retained organ tissue from babies without parental consent. The tissue removed in postmortem examinations was retained for some years. The Rotunda hospital admitted that that permission should have been sought for this process to be allowed to take place. A medical negligence award was approved in 2020 for a young boy who developed cerebral palsy as a result of complications with his delivery at the hospital in 2004. See also General Lying-In Hospital, London References Sources External links 1745 establishments in Ireland Teaching hospitals in Dublin (city) Teaching hospitals of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Teaching hospitals of the University of Dublin, Trinity College Rotundas in Europe Hospitals established in the 1740s Parnell Square Health Service Executive hospitals Richard Cassels buildings