Seanad debates

Wednesday, 13 November 2002

Lindsay Tribunal Report: Motion.

 

Further investigative methods were necessary on the part of this tribunal that did not come into action. I will give one other instance. There was contradictory evidence between two doctors, Professor Ernest Egan and Dr. Terry Walsh. Professor Egan, for example, maintained that he had informed Dr. Walsh of the infection with HIV of one of his patients through the blood transfusion services in January 1996. There was a conflict of evidence and Dr. Walsh said that he had not been so informed as far as he could recall. However, although the judge said she believed he had been informed, she did not go much further than that. It is an astonishing thing to say that a doctor had been informed that a patient had been infected with a blood product and nothing was done and that the same kind of treatment continued.

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