‘Shattered’ woman awarded €273,223

ALISON GOUGH was 27 when she had her first baby. She was a patient at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda when her son was delivered on October 27, 1992 by caesarian section.

A few days after the procedure, Alison was chatting with nurses and asked if she was to have any more children, could she have them by section. They told her talk to her doctor.

Her gynaecologist was Dr Michael Neary. He came to visit her in the public ward and she asked him the same question. He said no.