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Updated, 12:52
THE SOLICITOR representing the husband of the late Savita Halappanavar has received a copy of the HSE’s draft report into Savita’s death.
A seven-member team, chaired by London-based obstetrician Prof Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, has been working on the report for the last four months.
Praveen Halappanavar was not present when the report was delivered to the solicitor’s office, RTÉ reports, as he had decided not to participate in the investigation while seeking a full public inquiry into Savita’s death.
Halappanavar will be given an opportunity to offer feedback and propose changes given that he has not played a part in the investigation so far.
The report will not be formally published until next week at the earliest.
Halappanavar died at University Hospital Galway in October following a miscarriage, from suspected blood poisoning.
Around 30 people are named in the report – of which an early draft was leaked last month.
The early draft reportedly detailed a litany of medical failures in dealing with Halappanavar’s condition, and that a blood infection had gone undiagnosed for days.
She had been miscarrying for several days, and had requested an abortion, but had been told that a termination could not be carried out because a foetal heartbeat was still present.
Her death prompted major public outcry and sparked fresh calls for legislation to permit abortion in certain circumstances.
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I hope he gets some closure now it’s been a hard road for him and his family.
Why is anyone red thumbing this?
Kevin people should learn to use their left hand
@Micky Kellegher. What a comment! Lucky to be in Ireland! Lucky his wife died too then! Were you lucky to have grown up in Clondalkin?? He has as much right to be in Ireland as you do/did in his India, attempting to make a living and provide for his family, as you no doubt feel an entitlement to in Bahrain or in India!! Visit many sweatshops while sourcing for Next Micheal?? Uneducated buffoon.
He wants a full public inquiry, maybe thats why the red thumbs are there… No closure til he gets that
Every time I read anything in relation to this Savita case, I actually shudder, I’m near the same age as Savita and to think I would of been left to die like her, I’m atheist too so i don’t share catholic beliefs. Everyone deserves a choice in the year 2013! What a waste of a life to please the small minded of Ireland.
Karolyn that is a very small minded view you have no one intentionally left this lady to die it was a tragedy hopefully never to be repeated.
You can’t draw any conclusions until the report is made public. The termination issue may or may not be relevant. If it is, as the article suggests, involves other medical issues such as blood infections then it would appear that the Irish health system doesn’t care whether you are Catholic or not.
… I actually shudder reading your comment; you have no idea what happened there and have managed to paint it as mad catholic doctors going knocking off the opposition. Its a private thing now made public unfortuneately. Praveen seeing the report first is good but nothing in that report will make him happy.
And gerbeen, rightly so it should be made public, I’m assuming your not female so this incident will never affect you directly, as someone who miscarried at 15 weeks, Savita was 17 weeks I believe, I can relate, I lost a lot of blood and had to go to theatre for a D&C, thankfully infection never happened for me but it was a horrific thing to go through especially pain wise so I have plenty to say on this incident whether you like it or not! Unfortunately religion does come into it as being a catholic country was one of the reasons stated by Mr Halappanavar as to why Savita couldn’t be giving an absorption/D&C as a heartbeat was detected in the dying foetus. You seem to be very misinformed on this matter.
Karolyn
Your not fully informed either, NONE of us are except the people in the hospital the Halapanaver’s and the committee undertaking the report.
You like thousands of women in the country had a pregnancy loss a very sad time and you had a safe operation you like thousands of other women on this island catholic/Muslim/Hindi/aethesit or agnostic have lived so dont sensationalise the situation like you did in the first comment no one is left to die in hospitals in this country.
Praveen has been accommodated in all his requests by the Irish government and the investigation. Would he get the same treatment in India? Anyone?
Probably not as it would be just one of many tragic obstetric deaths unlike here where it stood out like a sore thumb because Ireland has a better health service. Also it became a media circus and the general consensus became she was left to die which only fed the hunger for information.
No he wont but whats your point? Lets lower our medical expectation because somewhere in the world its actually worst? Is it me or people have some issues to analyse basic article writen in a very common English? (English ist my mother tongue by the way)
Whether he would be treated similarly in India or anywhere else is beside the point. We are concerned with standards on our country .
I think the sad reality is people’s sympathy might be waning slightly for the deceased’s husband. The impression is that he is being awkward at every opportunity.
Nope. Not me. I still have the utmost sympathy for Praveen on the unnecessary death of his wife.
Dude. You look like an egg. But it is egg season.
Would you ever leave this poor man alone in peace for a couple of days. A draft about a draft about a draft. Wait until there’s actual news or outcomes and report those
To be fair, this man courted media attention around this case.
If he didn’t do you honestly think we’d know about it now?
Kevin- there was no criticism implied. I’m just saying he would welcome attention being given to this draft. He wants a light shone on this.
If there’s anything in that report that he doesn’t agree with his legal team WILL flag it. But IMO to give it to him on a BH weekend shows the level of stage managing people in government will go too.
Nobody is at the man, the man wants the truth and he contacted the media to get this all to happen.
Without the media we may not even have this report!
Well he’s done a fair bit of stage management and PR himself. This entire debate needs to be approached in a methodical, logical way. Managing the flow of information mitigates against knee jerk reactions and its too important an issue for that.
agree Kevin, we need the true facts.
But the media is just clouding the whole issue. – I thought the leak of the initial draft to the Evening Herald was very disrespectful, and not helpful to the overall debate.
I wonder how long it will take for it to be leaked? 10 minutes? 20?
I was in India recently, compared to us we have the best health system in the world. What a dirty, corrupt country. Even the airport at Mumbai has slums backed up to the perimeter fence. This man is lucky to be in Ireland.
We all know that but as far as I am aware this has absolutly nothing to do with this case. If I follow your logic, then you can punch an afghanistan woman in Ireland for being unfaithfull as she would be stone to death in her country for doing this….
You know Michael I admire your courage by posting what you did this country has become far too pc.
Yes India is all those things and yes he is lucky to be here in Ireland because in India he wouldn’t have been entertained for one minute.
kevin o sullivan is an anagram of bernhard Langer capice!!!!!
Michael Kellegher what an ignorant comment u made.
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