The solicitor involved in an €8.2 million euro settlement from the HSE this week says Mullingar hospital had begun the proper course of treatment in the case but it had been discontinued in Dublin.
Ciaran Tansey was commenting on the case of 25 year old Rachel Barry from Longford who had sued the HSE through her mother for alleged negligence at Holles Street maternity hospital.
The solicitor said while the HSE had settled without admission of liability it was their case that Rachel's mother Finola should have been given antibiotics for an infection she suffered while pregnant in 1997.
He said the Longford woman had been brought to Mullingar hospital initially, and that antibiotics had been prescribed during her time there.
The solicitor says Mullingar hospital is to be commended for having begun the proper treatment which they argued could have prevented the cerebral palsy that Rachel was born with…
"The hospital in Mullingar, provided for Finola, the antibiotic treatment that she required, essentially.
When she was transferred to Holles Street, there was a change in medical treatment and she was taken off the antibiotic.
So we have a curious circumstance where Mullingar hospital did correctly and the national maternity hospital did incorrectly in my submission. That what's our case was."
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