Anorexia case: HSE staff to face judge

A young anorexic woman, saved from certain death by court intervention only three months ago, was allowed visit her family in breach of an order made by High Court president Peter Kelly.

Mr Justice Kelly yesterday directed that whatever staff in the HSE authorised an overnight visit for the woman to her family, be “assembled before the court on Friday next to give a full explanation of the breach”.

The judge said he also wanted to know why the HSE was now proposing to transfer the 19-year-old girl, with medical, psychiatric, and physical needs, from a general hospital to a community village for elderly people.