‘Barbaric and inhuman: Savita was left to die’

Praveen Halappanavar has said the death of his wife Savita after she was refused a termination in a Galway hospital as she miscarried was “horrendous, barbaric and inhuman”, and that she was left to die.

An inquest jury ruled unanimously that Savita’s death was by medical misadventure.

Mrs Halappanavar was 17 weeks pregnant when admitted to the University Hospital Galway on Oct 21 last year with an inevitable miscarriage. She died from multi-organ failure from septic shock and E.coli, four days after she had a spontaneous miscarriage.