Family of woman who died almost two years after failing to wake up from surgery settle action

The family of a 45-year-old Cork woman who never woke up after routine surgery at Cork University Hospital has settled a High Court action over her death for €400,000.

Mother of one Patricia Kelly, from Castletreasure, Douglas in Cork City, died after being in a coma for 22 months at Cork University Hospital following an operation on two discs in her neck.

The family’s counsel, Dr John O’Mahony SC with James Cross BL, told the High Court it was a very sad case.

He said everything appeared to go well in the February 2014 surgery but Mrs Kelly “never resurrected from the anaesthesia” and was completely unconscious for 22 months before her death on December 17th, 2015.

“All that time she was unconscious in bed,” he told Mr Justice Paul Coffey.

Counsel said an MRI and other tests showed Mrs Kelly was brain-damaged. He said the issues in the case were complicated and the identification of the causation was not clear-cut, adding thart Mrs Kelly never regained consciousness…

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