Mother protests outside Irish Fertility Society meeting

A MOTHER whose daughter died as a result of fertility treatment complications protested with family and friends outside the venue of the inaugural meeting of the Irish Fertility Society yesterday.

Angela Hickey’s daughter, Jacqueline Rushton, 33, died in January 2003 from respiratory problems arising from a combination of her ovaries producing too many eggs and a high level of oestrogen in her blood.

An inquest into her death ruled in April 2004 that it was due to medical misadventure. Ms Rushton and her husband Daniel had been trying for children and in November 2002 they decided to begin a course of IVF treatment. Over the following two months, Ms Rushton showed an overreaction to the IVF treatment and died on January 14.