A 12-year-old boy who was left paralysed after hospital treatment for meningitis has settled his action against the HSE with an interim payout of €3.7m.

A county Wexford boy has been awarded an interim settlement of €3.8m after being left paralysed following a delayed treatment for meningitis.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has invited the widowers of two women who died following childbirth at Sligo Regional Hospital, to meet him.

Seán Rowlette and Michael Kivlehan, whose wives died after giving birth in the same hospital, are seeking a meeting with Leo Varadkar, the health minister.

A hunt has been launched for two missing doctors who dealt with Sally Rowlette before she died after giving birth.

A conflict has arisen over whether a mother who died after giving birth was aware she had the deadly Hellp syndrome.

The jury in the inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan have returned a verdict of death by medical misadventure accompanied by four recommendations.

A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

No intensive care bed could be found in four Irish hospitals for a young mother as she lay at “death’s door” days after an emergency Caesarean section, the inquest into her death has heard.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost one million euro in damages from health chiefs.

AFTER yesterday’s verdict, Roger Murray, solicitor for the Butler family, said they hoped lessons have been learned by the HSE so that Louise’s tragic death may not have been in vain.