Mother who suffered Caesarian over ‘false’ twin settles case for €100,000

A WOMAN who had her abdomen unnecessarily cut open, after she was misdiagnosed as carrying twins, was compensated by over €100,000 in an out-of-court settlement.

Two years ago, the married mother-of-four gave birth to a son at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. When she failed to deliver a second child, as had been expected, an emergency Caesarean section was carried out, but no second baby was found.

An independent probe was headed by former Blood Transfusion Service Board chief executive Martin Hynes, but his highly critical report was not published.