A nurse who gripped the hand of Savita Halappanavar while delivering her dead baby daughter revealed how her patient later thanked her.

Praveen Halappanavar will be grateful “to his dying day” to the critical care staff at Galway University Hospital for the care they gave to his wife Savita before she passed away.

A nurse who gripped the hand of Savita Halappanavar while delivering her deceased baby daughter revealed how her patient later thanked her.

A microbiologist has said it would be of concern to her that a blood sample from Savita Halappanavar took more than three hours to reach the laboratory for testing.