Man whose wife died four hours after delivering baby settles High Court action for €1.9m

The couple had planned to have more children and buy a home in Ireland—their mortgage offer came in two days after Nayyab Tariq’s death

Nayyab Tariq with her husband Ayaz Ul Hassan. Nayyab died after giving birth at Mayo University Hospital. Asked about the loss of his wife as they started out to make a life in this country, Mr Ul Hassan said: “To be honest I don't think it's something that can be put into words."

The husband of a 28-year-old woman who died just four hours after delivering her baby at Mayo University Hospital has settled for €1.9 million High Court actions over her death.

First-time mother, Nayyab Tariq, a microbiologist in Ireland from Pakistan, the High Court heard, suffered a massive postpartum haemhorrage, went into shock and cardiac arrest just four hours after giving birth to her daughter in 2020.