Woman devastated after mix-up led to positive test for HIV, court told

A woman broke down as she told how she was devastated when she was given a positive test result for HIV after a hospital mixed up her blood sample with that of another person.

“I was devastated. I thought I was going to die, that I had no future,” said Michelle Kenny, who has sued St James’s Hospital, Dublin, for nervous shock over the mix-up in 2010.

“I thought ‘how could this happen to me? My life is over’,” she told Ms Justice Bronagh O’Hanlon at the High Court.