Sexual assaults, surgery deaths and abductions among 233 incidents over 19 months in HSE report

Patients dying after being attacked, sexual assaults, deaths during surgery, and an abduction from a hospital feature in a shocking HSE report published yesterday.

The litany of serious incidents in hospitals and other state-run healthcare facilities includes surgery performed on the wrong person, patients with items left inside them after operations, and procedures carried out on the wrong parts of the body.

The HSE report reveals 233 “serious reportable events” were logged over a 19-month period to September this year.