Helping symphysiotomy victims

Anxiety is clearly mounting following the recent award of €450,000 to a survivor of symphysiotomy.

However, to imply, as corporate lawyers have done, that casualties of the surgery should now be denied access to the courts on the ground of undue delay in bringing a claim is outrageous.

Healthy young women, many expecting their first child, were often invalided for life, unknowingly, in these covert operations.