Hospital and HSE apologise to family of brain-dead pregnant woman who was kept on life support

The family of a brain-dead pregnant mother of two who was kept on life support for almost four weeks due to concerns about the Eighth amendment has received an apology from a hospital and the HSE at the High Court.

The apology is part of a settlement which also provides for various payments, including a €150,000 payment for Natasha Perie’s daughter who was “horrified” when, then aged six, she saw her mother in a deteriorating and near unrecognisable condition on life support in late 2014.