Father wins €2k over daughter’s operation details

A SEPARATED father has been awarded €2,000 after the Equality Tribunal found he had been discriminated against when he was forced to use a solicitor to access details of his daughter’s tonsillectomy.

The man’s case was decided on last month after he had claimed discrimination on a number of grounds, including that the hospital consultant who removed his daughter’s tonsils had sought consent only from the girl’s mother.

The Equality Tribunal did not find in the man’s favour on those grounds, but did rule that the hospital, which was not named, had discriminated against him when it came to his request for information on the procedure.