Series of health service failings delayed woman’s diagnosis with devastating Huntington’s disease for years, lawsuit claims
By Shane Phelan
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Doctors left a man and his family in the dark for years about his diagnosis with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating progressive neurodegenerative disorder passed from one generation to the next.
The claim is made in a lawsuit in which the HSE and several GPs in the west of Ireland are being sued for negligence by the now-deceased man’s daughter, who herself has been diagnosed with the hereditary disease.
