'I hope I can get the surgery I need. I don’t want to lose my leg'

Meath woman Sarah Costello's injuries resulted from a procedure she underwent in Northern Ireland through the NTPF and she says she has since received inadequate care back home

Sarah Costello and her husband Stephen at their home in Meath. Pictures: Barry Cronin

Waking up on life support, terrified and unable to talk with tubes in her mouth, Sarah Costello was told she was lucky to be alive.

Within seconds of a routine keyhole surgery to check for endometriosis, the scope had pushed far beyond Sarah’s womb above her spinal column and severed her main aorta.