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| Savita Halappanavar: the last week of her life | Savita Halappanavar: the last week of her life |
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| 21 October: Savita Halappanavar, 17 weeks pregnant, arrives at Galway University hospital complaining of back pain. She is advised physiotherapy and is sent home. She returns a few hours later complaining of a dragging sensation in her body. | 21 October: Savita Halappanavar, 17 weeks pregnant, arrives at Galway University hospital complaining of back pain. She is advised physiotherapy and is sent home. She returns a few hours later complaining of a dragging sensation in her body. |
| 22 October: Her waters break and she is warned about the risk of infection. A scan shows a foetal heart beat. She is told by a midwife there is no possibility of the baby being saved. On her medical notes is written "inevitable miscarriage". She is put on antibiotics to guard against infection. | 22 October: Her waters break and she is warned about the risk of infection. A scan shows a foetal heart beat. She is told by a midwife there is no possibility of the baby being saved. On her medical notes is written "inevitable miscarriage". She is put on antibiotics to guard against infection. |
| 23 October: Halappanavar asks her consultant Dr Katherine Astbury for a termination. She is told that "in this country it is not legal to terminate a pregnancy on the grounds of poor prognosis for a foetus". A foetal heartbeat is present and her life is not at risk, so it is not legally possible to carry out the termination. Midwife manager Ann Maria Burke tries to calm an upset Halappanavar and explains that the termination cannot be carried out because Ireland is "a Catholic country". | 23 October: Halappanavar asks her consultant Dr Katherine Astbury for a termination. She is told that "in this country it is not legal to terminate a pregnancy on the grounds of poor prognosis for a foetus". A foetal heartbeat is present and her life is not at risk, so it is not legally possible to carry out the termination. Midwife manager Ann Maria Burke tries to calm an upset Halappanavar and explains that the termination cannot be carried out because Ireland is "a Catholic country". |
| 25 October: The Indian dentist goes into toxic shock after her body starts to shake with cold. | 25 October: The Indian dentist goes into toxic shock after her body starts to shake with cold. |
| 27 October: Halappanavar is critically ill and doctors do not expect her to survive. A number of friends have come to the hospital to be with Praveen, her husband. Savita Halappanavar has an unrecordable blood pressure, an extremely high heart rate and is sedated with morphine. | 27 October: Halappanavar is critically ill and doctors do not expect her to survive. A number of friends have come to the hospital to be with Praveen, her husband. Savita Halappanavar has an unrecordable blood pressure, an extremely high heart rate and is sedated with morphine. |
| 28 October: She dies at 1.09am, slightly less than one week after she had arrived at the hospital with back pain. Her husband speaks publicly about their denied request for a termination, which reopens the debate on Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws. | 28 October: She dies at 1.09am, slightly less than one week after she had arrived at the hospital with back pain. Her husband speaks publicly about their denied request for a termination, which reopens the debate on Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws. |
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