Family of 'amazing mother', 46, who died days after routine operation settles action

Bon Secours Hospital in Glasnevin, Dublin, has since changed its admittance procedure

Shauna McCabe outside the Four Courts on Wednesday. "Our lives were changed forever,” she said. Photo: Collins Courts

The family of a mother of three who died of a blood clot nine days after a varicose veins operation at a Dublin hospital has settled a High Court action over her death.

Karen McCabe (46), a week after the operation, had pains in her legs and went back to the Bon Secours Hospital but the High Court heard the junior doctor who wanted to admit her for tests did not have admitting privileges and her consultant was on holiday and she was discharged home. The settlement is against two hospitals and a vascular consultant.