Delay in treating woman after surgery, inquiry told

THERE was undue delay in treating a woman after undergoing a gynaecological procedure, an expert told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry.

Consultant gynaecologist and former master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Peter Boylan was giving evidence in relation to the care given to a mother-of-two who died three years after a routine surgical procedure in 2005.

Saundra O’Connor, aged 39, of Claregalway, Co Galway, died in February 2008, three years after undergoing a laparoscopy procedure in the Galway Clinic.