Deaths of Savita & Prasa Halappanavar
Galway, Ireland: 21-28 October, 2012
Savita Halappanavar was a 31 year old woman who was 17 weeks pregnant when she presented at the University Hospital, Galway, on 21 October, 2012, with a miscarriage. She spontaneously delivered a stillborn daughter, Prasa, on the afternoon of 24 October, and died from sepsis early on 28 October. The circumstances of her death generated a hurricane of controversy in Ireland and around the world about Irish abortion law. A coroner’s inquest held in Galway in April, 2013 resulted in the classification of Savita’s death as a “medical misadventure.”
What follows is a chronological account of Savita’s care and treatment from 21 to 28 October, drawn from newspaper reports of the evidence taken at the inquest. [Read more . . .]
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