Woman alleges untreated infection left her catastrophically injured from birth

Jane Harte with her mother Olivia outside the High Court on Washington St, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Judgement has been reserved until after Easter on the case of a profoundly disabled Cork woman who alleges that a potentially deadly, untreated infection was allowed to fester for hours after her birth in a Cork hospital and left her catastrophically injured.

Jane Harte, represented by her mother Olivia Harte, is suing Pallany Pillay, a retired consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who operated City General Hospital in Cork before it closed in 2000.