Hepatitis C victim still too ill for transplant

CONSULTANTS at a London hospital say a 32-year-old Irish woman suffering from hepatitis C is still too ill to undergo a life-saving liver transplant.

Doctors at Kings College Hospital are battling to improve the condition of Sylvia O'Leary, a mother of two from Ballincollig, Co Cork.

"She is still in a critical condition and there are no plans for her to undergo a transplant in the near future," Kings College Hospital spokeswoman Claire Pirie said yesterday.