The family of a woman who died of multi-organ failure seven days after she had a hysterectomy at Mount Carmel private hospital, Dublin have settled their High Court action for €560.000.

THE husband of a woman who died following an elective hysterectomy at a private hospital said after an inquest at which a verdict of medical misadventure was recorded that they had “got justice” for his wife.

A NURSE has told an inquest into the death of a woman following an elective hysterectomy at a private Dublin hospital that she was “very sick” when she was transferred to the facility’s high dependency unit and the nurse “knew something serious was wrong”, an inquest has heard.