The husband of a woman who died following a breast cancer misdiagnosis at Ennis General Hospital has received one hundred thousand euro in a High Court settlement.
Karl Henry sued the HSE alleging negligence in the treatment of Anne Moriarty who died in 2008 after two x-rays were misread at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Ennis
53 year old Anne Moriarty – a mother of one and civil servant passed away in April 2008 having after her cancer was misdiagnosed twice at the Mid-western regional hospital in Ennis
Follow up tests in Galway and Dublin showed her earlier breast cancer had recurred and was at an advanced stage, with lesions on the liver and lungs.
Anne Moriarty’s tragic case and a subsequent misdiagnosis in Ennis prompted the former Health Minister Mary Harney to order a review of services at Clare’s County hospital in 2008, which lead to the loss of some facilities following the publication of the damning HIQA report – now being used to implement changes in other small hospitals across ireland
Today, Ann Moriarty’s husband, Karl Henry – from the Limerick Road in Ennis who’s went public on his wife’s misdiagnosis in the hope that no other woman would suffer the same fate – settled his action for negligence against the HSE – receving one hundred thousand euro
The HSE has made no admission of liability.
