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13 Nov '14
Details of Symphysiotomy Redress Scheme now revealed
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The Government announced details of the Symphysiotomy compensation scheme on the 6th November, 2014. Judge Maureen Harding Clarke has been appointed as Independent Assessor to the scheme which was announced on the 1st of July, 2014 for women who underwent surgical symphysiotomy or pubiotomy. Judge Clarke stated that the vast majority of […]

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20 Aug '14
Redress Scheme for Symphysiotomy Survivors
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The procedure known as Symphysiotomy involved the slicing of the pubic bone in order to widen the birth canal in childbirth. The procedure was carried out in Ireland from the mid-1940s up until the mid-1980s. On the 26th of November 2013, approval was given by the Government to the then Minister for Health, Dr […]

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01 Oct '13
Hope for Symphysiotomy Survivors
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The Health Minister, Dr. James Reilly, in response to criticism from the Sinn Fein health spokesperson in the Dail on the 26th of September 2013, rejected suggestions that it is Department of Health policy to delay dealing with symphysiotomy survivors until all of the women are dead. Dr. Reilly confirmed that his Department had asked […]

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25 Apr '13
Light at the end of the tunnel?
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Government has accepted Private Member Bill for symphysiotomy redress Symphysiotomy victims have long been seeking a redress forum and a recognition of their suffering. This battle has been protracted and embittered. Symphysiotomy is the surgical procedure which was carried out in hospitals throughout Ireland from the 1940s to the 1980s which involved a pregnant woman […]

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