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The husband of Savita Halappanavar is considering lodging a complaint to the Ombudsman to assert his ownership of his wife’s medical notes, his solicitor has said.

Gerard O’Donnell said he had taken instructions from Praveen Halappanavar to seek direction from the Ombudsman on whether he or Galway University Hospital owns her medical records.

Mr Halappanavar has objected to the use of his wife’s notes in a HSE inquiry into her death. He has said he has no faith in a HSE-run inquiry and does not want her notes used in it.

Mr O’Donnell had asked that the hospital, where Ms Halappanavar died last month, hand over the original medical notes. However, the HSE has said it owns them.

Husband may lodge complaint with Ombudsman (Kitty Holland, Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

When it’s an extra dimension.

Yes.

The expected announcement of a second State inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar is “an extra dimension, rather than a U-turn”, according to Minister for Health James Reilly.

The board of the Health Information and Quality Authority is expected to confirm today that it will undertake a statutory investigation into Ms Halappanavar’s death, following a request from the Health Service Executive.

It was unclear last night whether her husband Praveen, who says he will have nothing to do with the HSE inquiry, will co-operate with the investigation to be conducted by the authority, which is the State’s health watchdog.

 

Reilly says new inquiry into Galway death is ‘not U-turn’ (Paul Cullen, Kitty Holland, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

 

Lifetime achievement award winner Jennifer Johnston (with Joseph O’Connor) at the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards this evening.

Other winners included Just Mary by Mary O’Rourke; My Olympic Dream by Katie Taylor; Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley et al; Country Girl by Edna O’Brien; A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy; The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan; This Moose belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers;, Artemis Fowl:The last Guardian by Eoin Colfer, Broken Harbour by Tana French, Eat like an Italian by Catherine Fulvio, Ancient Light by John Banville

Pic via Natdewinter

List of winners via South Dublin Libraries (Facebook)

HSE Asks Hiqa To Carry Out Savita Halappanavar Inquiry (Irish Times)

Praveen Halappanavar’s Solicitor Says No Information On Termination Requests In HSE File (RTE)

President Michael D Higgins Defends Savita Inquiry Comments (Ed Carty and Mike Hornby, Irish Independent)

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A vigil for Savita Halappanavar outside the Irish Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

Michael Pidgeon writes:

All in all, we reckon there were a little over 150 there by the end (lots of latecomers). I would say a little over half of them were Irish people living in Brussels. We had speeches from the President of the European Women’s Lobby, a message from Paul Murphy MEP (who was in Strasbourg), Anja Deschoemacker, from the Belgian socialist party called LSP/PSL, and – most importantly – various women from Ireland who spoke of their sadness, anger and frustration with what’s been happening back home.

 

Pics by Kaenas O’Connor, Frederique Luca

President Michael D Higgins has intervened in the continuing row over the inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar, saying it must meet the needs of her family as well as those of the State.

President Higgins’ unprecedented comments will increase the pressure on the Government to recast the investigation in response to continuing opposition from her husband Praveen.

However, Government sources continued to insist last night that the HSE-commissioned inquiry announced this week, to be held in private, would go ahead as planned. Mr Halappanavar is seeking a sworn public inquiry.

President says Savita inquiry must satisfy her family (Paul Cullen, Kitty Holland, Mark Hennessy, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)