OPINION:A lobby group wants the statute of limitations to be temporarily lifted for survivors of what were covert, unnecessary and injurious operations A YOUNG, healthy woman expecting her second ...

Survivors of symphysiotomy are appealing to the Minister for Health to stop the planned destruction of data relating to their cases. Fri, 18 Mar, 2016 - 07:07 Survivors of symphysiotomy are appealing ...

Rita McCann still remembers the day when her joy at the prospect of giving birth to her first child turned into sheer terror. It was December 15th, 1957 when she went ...

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Symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure where cartilage of the ‘pubic symphysis’ is cut in order to widen the pelvis during childbirth. This procedure is rarely performed in developed countries now as ...

In the 20th century, symphysiotomy was practised only in Ireland. Doctors across Europe knew what a caesarean section was, but the wards were also staffed by Catholic nuns. It is widely suspected that ...

How much compensation should you get if someone hurts you, damages you irreparably? That’s the question survivors of a dreadful medical practise in Ireland are having to consider, and to consider in ...

A group representing hundreds of women who had a symphysiotomy during childbirth are due to appear before a United Nations watchdog committee in Geneva this weekend to discuss their plight. Survivors ...

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Symphysiotomy was a controversial procedure that involved widening a woman's pelvis during childbirth A campaign by Survivors of Symphysiotomy is taking a complaint against the Irish government to the ...