Legal action after non-verbal man with disabilities left with undetected shattered hip for 'an unknown period'

According to the papers lodged with the High Court, issued on his behalf by his sister, he had a significantly displaced comminuted distal right femoral fracture which required operative treatment.

The HSE is being sued by a non-verbal man with disabilities who sustained a shattered hip in mysterious circumstances.

In papers lodged with the High Court his sister alleges the HSE and other parties allowed the injury to go “undiagnosed, undetected and untreated for an unknown period”.