Anorexic to be tube-fed for further two weeks

A 22-year-old woman who suffers from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is to be fed through a tube in hospital for another two weeks.

The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, yesterday extended the order after hearing an update on the woman’s progress and said if an application is made by her lawyers at that stage for an independent psychiatric report to be carried out, the court will by sympathetic.

When the case came before the High Court yesterday, counsel for the HSE, Peter Finlay, said the court order had been hugely effective and the woman has accepted the seven daily nutritional feeds her body requires.