British hospital comes to aid of paralysed woman

A SPECIALIST hospital in Britain has come to the assistance of a woman with a rare syndrome, which renders her alert but unable to speak or move as a shortage of beds continues to delay in her treatment here.

Catherine O’Leary, 31, of Ballincollig, Co Cork, was left bitterly disappointed last week after she was informed that a planned move to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire had been further delayed by a minimum of two months.

Mother-of-one Catherine suffered two strokes during brain surgery in February.