Draft report 'vindicates' husband's account of Savita's care

Death and Taxes

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0214/breaking5.html

Praveen Halappanavar’s account of the treatment of his wife, Savita, in Galway University Hospital last year has been vindicated by leaks of the draft report into her death, his solicitor said yesterday.
Solicitor Gerard O’Donnell said Mr Halappanavar was too upset to talk after discovering that details of the HSE report into his wife’s death were leaked. Yesterday’s Evening Herald carried extracts of an early draft of the report.

“If what was published today were extracts from the report then all they do is, in some ways, vindicate what my client said from the outset as to the way his wife was treated at University Hospital Galway,” Mr O’Donnell said.

If this is correct then what happened this woman is shocking beyond belief.
It will be interesting to see what all those who derided Praveens account and attempted to blacken his name (including posters here in AH) have to say now.
The draft report actually questions if she should have been offered a termination BEFORE she requested it.That hospital has a lot of questions to answer about their abysmal performance in this case.

P.S. This is NOT a thread on abortion per se, it is a thread about this case in particular.

Czarcasm

WileyCoyote wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0214/breaking5.html

Praveen Halappanavar’s account of the treatment of his wife, Savita, in Galway University Hospital last year has been vindicated by leaks of the draft report into her death, his solicitor said yesterday.
Solicitor Gerard O’Donnell said Mr Halappanavar was too upset to talk after discovering that details of the HSE report into his wife’s death were leaked. Yesterday’s Evening Herald carried extracts of an early draft of the report.

“If what was published today were extracts from the report then all they do is, in some ways, vindicate what my client said from the outset as to the way his wife was treated at University Hospital Galway,” Mr O’Donnell said.

If this is correct then what happened this woman is shocking beyond belief.

It will be interesting to see what all those you derided Praveens account and attempted to blacken his name (including posters here in AH) have to say now.

The draft report actually questions if she should have been offered a termination BEFORE she requested it.That hospital has a lot of questions to answer about their abysmal performance in this case.

P.S. This is NOT a thread on abortion per se, it is a thread about this case in particular.

There's hardly a need to start a separate thread just to say "I told you so!"

Death and Taxes

Czarcasm wrote: »

There's hardly a need to start a separate thread just to say "I told you so!"

Thread isn't " I told you so", its about a young woman whose death cause a wave of controversy last October, and whose husband became a target of some very virulent and sinister abuse, as did the journalist who first broke the story of this wholly unnecessary death.

Rasheed

I just think it's disgusting that Mr. Hallappanavar, after the tragic death of his wife, has to hear the report into her death was leaked, like some gutter story. Poor man.

As for the leaks themselves, I'm glad the truth of the matter is has been reached and will rid and ugly doubts that people had over Mr. Hallappanavar's intentions.

Death and Taxes

Rasheed wrote: »

I just think it's disgusting that Mr. Hallappanavar, after the tragic death of his wife, has to hear the report into her death was leaked, like some gutter story. Poor man.

As for the leaks themselves, I'm glad the truth of the matter is has been reached and will rid and ugly doubts that people had over Mr. Hallappanavar's intentions.

That just accentuates the manner in which he has treated all along.

Rasheed

WileyCoyote wrote: »

That just accentuates the manner in which he has treated all along.

Yes, the point I was trying to make was the leak just added to the whole mess for him.

the_syco

WileyCoyote wrote: »

That just accentuates the manner in which he has treated all along.

This being Ireland, if it wasn't leaked, one would wonder if it would have been quickly swept under the rug?

Death and Taxes

the_syco wrote: »

This being Ireland, if it wasn't leaked, one would wonder if it would have been quickly swept under the rug?

Still doesn't excuse the fact that while others have had copies of the Draft report he still hasn't even seen it.
And the report in itself wholly vindicates all he said at the time.

Curly Judge

Following today's news,
A verse from "Albert and the Lion" comes to mind:

"The magistrate gave his decision
That no one was really to blame
And he hoped that Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Would have further sons to their name."

gctest50

There are a number of occasions where entries were made in the medical records at a time later than the time that the entry relates to.

Diddling the records again ?

Nine staff working in the hospital where Savita Halappanavar died almost two years ago have been disciplined over the tragedy.
The disciplinary process involved informal counselling, with training and mentoring, in some cases. In others, written warning were issued.

tea then ? should have been a punch-bowl of barbituate

Shakespeare's Sister

Ah good auld scapegoating.

_Whimsical_

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Ah good auld scapegoating.

"Scapegoating"?
In what sense?
She would be alive today if her medical care had been at all adequate, if even basic measures were followed with respect of her tests and vital signs.Had she had a sore throat that turned septic her outcome would've been the same with the level of care she received.
Yet negligent staff whose lack of observance killed a young woman get away with sternly worded letters and some advice on training.


I guess we will wait for the next person to die in the same way, or maybe ten,hell why not 100?, before we acknowledge and learn the lessons of what really happened in this case.

Curly Judge

Temperature, pulse and blood pressure is all they needed to monitor and they couldn't even respond properly to those vital signs which they would have had drilled into them on their first week in med school.
I sincerely hope that her husband proceeds with his legal action against the hospital and in so doing does the country a signal service.
I wonder how much they'll offer to buy him off?

Shakespeare's Sister

Bet the rot starts at the top, but it's easier to blame frontline staff. Nurses and junior doctors aren't in the habit of harming patients.

Curly Judge

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Bet the rot starts at the top, but it's easier to blame frontline staff. Nurses and junior doctors aren't in the habit of harming patients.

I have a feeling that it could all come down to ethos.