‘I did not trust anybody at the hospital’

A woman told the High Court yesterday how, as her partner was dying of septic shock at Mercy University Hospital, Cork, her confidence in the care of the hospital had completely gone.

“I did not trust anybody. I thought if I was not there when he passed, nobody would have noticed,” Geraldine Barry told Mr Justice Anthony Barr.

Ms Barry was giving evidence in the second day of her case, where the Mercy has admitted liability in relation to the post-operative care of Chris Sayer, who died at the hospital in 2010.