Savita case:'Unfair to publish report without showing draft'

Ahead of the publication of a key report on Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar's death after being denied an abortion in Ireland, her husband's attorney has accused the health chiefs of being "disrespectful" to the deceased and the family by not showing the final draft.
Husband of the 31-year-old Indian dentist, Praveen, is not in Ireland and his lawyer has claimed that he was unable to see the final draft from an internal inquiry and was not told that it would be made public later today.
"It is very unfortunate and a little disrespectful of Praveen and his late wife," solicitor Gerard O'Donnell told the 'Irish Mirror'.

"I suppose what surprised me the most was the sudden rush to get it published," O'Donnell said.
"I would have liked an opportunity to talk to him and to be able to alert him to the fact that the report is to be published and so he in turn could talk to his own family and Savita's family and be prepared for the publication," he said, adding that he was only notified of the publication late last night via email.
It is believed the Health Safety Executive (HSE) review, to be released in Dublin today, has identified inadequate monitoring of Savita as one of the key reasons for her death in Galway University Hospital after she suffered a miscarriage and was denied a termination.

The review was headed by Dr Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, an internationally-renowned doctor in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology.

O'Donnell said the 108-page report, which includes a series of recommendations, was robust and would be studied by hospitals around the country.
"It bears out what my client has always said, the significant shortcomings across the board in the treatment of his late wife Savita. It identifies a number of key causal factors which contributed to, indeed resulted in, her death," O'Donnell said.
Savita died of septicaemia on October 28 last year at Galway University Hospital after she was admitted to the hospital undergoing a miscarriage at 17 weeks into her pregnancy.

Her husband has maintained that she repeatedly requested a termination but was refused because a foetal heartbeat was present.
Ireland is in the process of clarifying its complex laws around abortion as the debate was re-ignited in the wake of the tragedy.