HSE review underway after woman claims ectopic pregnancy was misdiagnosed

Catherine Shanahan speaks to a woman who received treatment to end what she was told was a non-viable pregnancy but who later found out that the diagnosis was incorrect.

ON January 6, 2013, at approximately 6am, Laura Esmonde woke with a scream.

“I had a really sharp pain in my left leg. When I turned on the light, it was twice the size of my right leg,” she says. “I rang the local GP co-op service, and, because of my medical history, I was told go straight to the emergency department at South Tipperary General Hospital.”