€3.5m settlement over birth care

A man who had sued the Rotunda Hospital over his care at the time of his birth has settled his High Court action for €3.5m.

Leon Keogh, aged 24, of Castletimon Rd, Kilmore, Dublin 5, had through his mother Natalie O’Hanlon, sued the hospital over the circumstances of his birth and his care on December 21, 1991.

It was claimed there was an alleged failure to pay any or any sufficient attention to the abnormalities which allegedly should have been apparent on the CTG trace and an alleged failure to deliver Leon when it ought to have been apparent there was foetal cardiac abnormality. It was further claimed there was an alleged failure to deliver or expedite delivery at the first possible opportunity when it was allegedly clear the foetus was in distress.