Live! Staff failed to adequately assess Savita: Report
June 13, 2013  22:56
Staff at an Irish hospital failed to adequately assess and monitor Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died after suffering a miscarriage, a key report on her death said today and warned that such incidents could happen again in the absence of clarity on abortion law.

A clinical inquiry into the death of Savita, which was published today, found that the most likely cause of her death was infection- with the risk of infection and sepsis increasing after her waters broke.

Savita had died of septicaemia in her 17th week of pregnancy at University Hospital Galway and an inquest into her death held in April heard that she had been denied a potentially life-saving termination on the grounds that Ireland is a "Catholic country".
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