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INDEPENDENT MIDWIFE PHILOMENA Canning has said that she is both relieved and saddened after settling her case with the HSE.
Canning, who is suffering from terminal ovarian cancer, had sought damages from the HSE, who withdrew her indemnity insurance to practice as a midwife.
In 2015, her indemnity was restored by the HSE.
It is understood she has not returned to work as a midwife since and her case was highlighted in a recent article in the Irish Examiner.
In a post to Facebook today, Canning said that the case has been settled and that she is pleased with the outcome.
“This is a day of vindication for me – the first day in almost four-and-a-half years where I have woken without a shadow over me: the shadow of having been wronged,” the midwife wrote.
It is a relief to wake in the knowledge that I do not have to fight any more: for my livelihood, my good name, my vocation. I have the peace of mind I longed for.
“But there is sadness too. I know that my long-held ambition of bringing birth centres to the women of Ireland may never be realised. But I also know that as the shadow over me lifts, new light is emerging. Fresh energy is rising up. Other dedicated, passionate and skilled midwives will take up the mantle and make it happen. Please know that I will never be far from you in spirit.”
Canning then thanked family, friends, numerous people who had helped her with her campaign as well as her doctors.
“Finally, I want to say to every pregnant woman out there, and every woman who wishes to be: you have within you the great gift of creation. Therein lies enormous power and potential,” she added.
In her interview with the Examiner, Canning noted that she believes her only hope in fighting her cancer is access to the immunotherapy drug Pembro.
She said she feels she had no choice but to get her case settled so she can access money for the drug.
Speaking to the Dáil on Tuesday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said it was his understanding that Canning had been offered a settlement.
TheJournal.ie has sought a response from the HSE on today’s developments, with the executive saying during the week that it was, “actively engaging in an effort to bring this matter to a conclusion”.
- With reporting by Hayley Halpin
If you use apps that require access to your contacts and your bookmarks and your location and the other stuff… You cannot act shocked that this data is used by companies (and governments) to profile you. It’s the payoff for free maps and apps unfortunately.
Agreed. Once you put your information out there – no matter what data protection or other such promises are made, no matter how safe they tell you it is – you are safer to assume that the whole world knows about it. Laws exist preventing anyone accessing your information without your knowledge or consent, but when it comes to governments and such powers you may as well wipe your backside with the paper the laws are written on because they will do whatever they want, regardless of what the laws say. You can take that as a fact written in stone.
Bad piggies!
Nothing written here shocks me. If you use Facebook, Twitter or download games or movies, it’s more then likely going to be tracked by someone
They couldn’t give us a hand with candy crush no ?
117 – been stuck for weeks.
I’d like to blame the NSA……
Thats it then, the AL Ka-ee-da are finished. Thats how they caught Bin Laden you know. And the poor fecker had just collected his last golden egg!
Are you one of these misguided person who think they caught Osama bin scapegoat
Hi there! Jim Corr is it?
App deleted
Kind of puts their “targeted surveillance” nonsense to bed though, doesn’t it?
I don’t think many terrorists play these games.
According to Rovio, it may be the third-party Ad networks where the NSA/GCQH get their access.
Either way, we’re all correct in saying “this doesn’t shock us”, but it’s also still illegal, immoral (they don’t exclude your kids from the dragnet….) and being done with “our” money (by which I mean mostly UKUSA tax revenue…..perhaps ours too though??).
Would anybody not be a little pi$$ed off if your Govt was wasting money on this type of thing, regardless of the whole spying on everyone all the time aspect? It’s profiling, pure and simple.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/nasa-and-britains-gchq-mapping-political-alignments-of-millions-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/5366496
We can be both unsurprised AND angry. Just let’s not be dismissive. Or even worse, bored. It’s important.
This guy doesn’t write to movie stars he writes to movies.
Dear Mad Max,
Do you know Die Hard?
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