Husbands seek to meet with Varadkar

Seán Rowlette and Michael Kivlehan, whose wives died after giving birth in the same hospital, are seeking a meeting with Leo Varadkar, the health minister.

Mr Rowlette 39, from Dromore West, Co Sligo, said yesterday — a day after an inquest jury found his wife Sally’s death was medical misadventure — that there is an urgent need to discuss the system of healthcare with the minister.

The father-of-four said: “I’d like to tell him my story and the pain we have gone through for the last two years. I want him to hear it first-hand. I want to explain that these things have to be changed. Our family has been torn apart.”