Similarities in women’s deaths shock family

The family of Tania McCabe, a Garda sergeant who died in 2007 from sepsis following childbirth, were shocked to learn of “disturbing” similarities between her death and that of Savita Halappanavar.

The information was published in an extensive investigation into the death of Ms Halappanavar by the Health Information Quality Authority (Hiqa).

Mc McCabe, 34, was six months pregnant when she was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in March 2007.