A husband is claiming the costs of surrogacy in a High Court action following the death of his wife from cervical cancer.
Padraig Creaven wants to honour the wish of himself and his late wife Aoife to have a child, the court heard.
His case against the HSE, three laboratories and a hospital centres on alleged misinterpretation of his wifeâs cervical smear in 2011 taken under the CervicalCheck national screening programme. All the claims are denied.
Aoife Mitchell Creaven was about 20 weeks pregnant through IVF in 2014 when she found out she had terminal cervical cancer and her life expectancy was limited. She had to travel to London to have the much-wanted pregnancy terminated as chemotherapy was the only option.