Woman was not told her dying partner had sepsis

A woman broke down in tears in the High Court yesterday when she told how she watched her partner die weeks after an operation at Mercy University Hospital, Cork, and how she was not told there was sepsis.

Geraldine Barry said the term septic shock was never used to her.

Ms Barry, aged 44, of Lakemarsh, Church Cross, Skibbereen, Co Cork, had sued Mercy University Hospital, Cork City as a result of the death of her partner Christopher Sayer, 70.