Praveen tells of hate mail as takes legal action against UHG

Praveen Halappanavar has said this week that he remains ‘determined and focussed’ to seek out the truth in relation to the death of his wife Savita last October at UHG, after her pregnancy termination request was turned down by the hospital.

In a radio interview this week, Mr. Halappanavar, said that the truth hadn’t come out in the HSE report as to the reason for his wife’s death on October 28, 2012, during the 17th week of her pregnancy, after she was found to be miscarrying.

He told Miriam O’Callaghan on Radio 1’s ‘John Murray Show’ that he had no trust in the HSE and that he was still seeking a public inquiry on the matter as well as taking a case to the European Court of Justice.

Mr. Halappanavar said that it was a ‘big decision’ to take legal proceedings against the UHG (University Hospital Galway) but he added that this was one of the ways that they could get to the truth of what happened to his wife last October.

 Mr. Halappanavar’s solicitor, Gerard O’Donnell, confirmed that there were multiple grounds for issuing High Court medical negligence proceedings against the hospital over Savita’s death at UHG.

Mr. O’Donnell said that those grounds included ‘failing to treat, failing to diagnose, failing to chart, failing to do tests, failing to follow up blood tests’ and ‘failures at every level’.

In his radio interview, Praveen Halappanavar said that he had received abusive letters from different campaigners, since the death of Savita had come into the public domain.

“There is one particular campaigner that writes again and again. Basically I was told to leave the country and told to clean the mess . . . and to mind my own business,” he said.

For more on this story, see this week’s Galway City Tribune