73-year-old Joan Lucey from Cooleen, Dingle was laid to rest yesterday.
The retired nurse had brought a case against the HSE, Clinical Pathology Laboratories Incorporated, and MedLab Pathology Ltd over alleged misreading or misinterpretation or misreporting of her cervical smears taken in February and August 2011.
On two occasions prior to her death, her legal team pleaded in the High Court for mediation talks to take place; they had been due to begin over the weekend.
A spokesperson for the late Mrs Lucey’s legal team told Radio Kerry News mediation is set to recommence today.
The Labour Party leader says he is disgusted by the lack of immediacy among Government in changing how women impacted by the CervicalCheck controversy are dealt with. Deputy Alan Kelly’s comment come as Dingle woman Joan Lucey is laid to rest today. The 73-year-old retired nurse brought a case against the HSE, Clinical Pathology Laboratories […]
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Kerry cervical cancer victim s dying wish: I want to hold the HSE accountable
Joan Lucey, with her condition rapidly declining, had been suing the HSE and two laboratories over her smear slides
Jane Lucey. Picture: Seán Mac an tSíthigh/Lucey Family
Sat, 20 Feb, 2021 - 17:22
Liz Dunphy I want to hold the HSE accountable. If by going public on it, it helps other women, that’s what I want to do.
That was the priority for Joan Lucey, the Kerry cervical cancer sufferer who died last night, as she fought her campaign for justice from her death bed.
Ms Lucey, with her condition rapidly declining, had been suing the HSE and two laboratories over her smear slides.
A retired nurse who died hours before mediation started in her legal challenge against the Health Service Executive over her cervical smear tests could have had her case settled while she was still alive, her solicitor has said.
Joan Lucey (73), of Cooleen, Dingle, Co Kerry, died on Friday night, according to Fr Michael Moynihan, parish priest at St Maryâs Church in Dingle.
The widowâs action against the HSE was due to be heard before the High Court next week, but her lawyers sought mediation instead, saying she was âon her deathbedâ and they were concerned large parts of her claim might die with her.