‘I wouldn’t like the Rushton case to put people off IVF’

JUST months after Jacqueline Rushton died following in vitro fertilisation complications, Jennifer Callister began similar treatment at Dublin’s HARI Clinic.

Maybe protocols were tightened up in the aftermath of Ms Rushton’s death, she says, but she said she was fully informed of the risk of ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome.

“I had a lot of monitoring. To be honest, you’re in and out of the clinic all the time for nearly four weeks during a cycle of IVF.