3ft-long wire left inside woman after cancer operation

A FORMER nurse has begun a High Court medical negligence action arising from a thin stainless steel “guidewire” being left inside her after she underwent a procedure for administering breast cancer chemotherapy.

The 62-year-old woman did not discover the three foot long wire was there until two years later.

Liability is conceded in the case and it is before Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O’Neill for assessment only.