How the death of Savita Halappanavar changed the course of modern Irish history
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What Happened to Praveen?
She started developing severe back pain at 17 weeks pregnant and went to the A&E with Praveen on Sunday 21st of October 2012. She was presented with the back pain and she was told she was miscarrying the baby. The miscarriage did not proceed as one would have usually expect and the pain got worse and worse. By Tuesday night, she was becoming quite ill. One of the doctors on his ward round suspected she had sepsis. That's suspicion didn't get relayed until two o'clock the following after that afternoon - by which stage she was really very ill. She spontaneously delivered female fetus whom she named Prasa and she went into a coma then and was taken
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