Family win right to sue second doctor in US

THE family of a Limerick woman who died after a face-lift operation in New York has won the right to sue a second doctor involved in the procedure.

Last week New York’s Supreme Court ruled that a jury should decide whether anaesthesiologist Dr Madhavrao Subbarao had “abandoned” 42-year-old Kay Cregan, from Croom, after the operation.

Ms Cregan died after post-operative bleeding blocked her airways. She had complained of being dizzy and fainted the morning after she had undergone five procedures including a face-lift, eyelid surgery and nasal reconstruction.