The chief executive of the Western Health and Social Care Trust has said there have been a number of doctors targeted with alleged abuse over the removal of emergency general surgery at the South West Acute Hospital.
Neil Guckian told a special meeting of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council that a number of clinicians had been "approached and verbally" abused in supermarkets and on the street as a result of them "siding with management" on the issue.
Mr Guckian and other Trust officials appeared before the special council meeting at the Grange in Omagh to provide an update on the temporary suspension of the service at the Co Fermanagh hospital.
