€4.4m for boy damaged by negligent birth

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy who should have been born healthy but is permanently brain-damaged, blind and quadriplegic because of negligence in his birth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has secured €4.35 million in settlement of his High Court action.

Mr Justice Vivian Lavan was told Aaron Trimble would have been born a perfectly healthy baby were it not for the admitted negligence in the management of his birth.

This included failure to adequately monitor the foetal heart rate, which would have shown the baby was in distress and needed to be delivered immediately.