{"id":254449,"date":"2026-01-20T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:15:09","slug":"surgeon-guilty-of-serious-failings-in-care-after-teen-dies-during-operation-to-remove-tumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254449\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon guilty of \u2018serious failings\u2019 in care after teen dies during operation to remove tumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Jessica Sheedy suffered massive blood loss during surgery at University Hospital Limerick\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jessica Sheedy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768922109_486_f28774e4-5b37-443e-bd65-227eb7b3f33b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jessica Sheedy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A surgeon has been found guilty of \u201cserious failings\u201d in his care of a teenage girl who died after suffering massive blood loss in an operation to remove a tumour from her abdomen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dr Ashish Lal did not have adequate experience and did not seek proper assistance when he carried out surgery on Jessica Sheedy at University Hospital Limerick in 2018, a fitness to practice enquiry heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Jessica Sheedy suffered massive blood loss during surgery at University Hospital Limerick Jessica Sheedy A surgeon has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10747,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-254449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-andrew-phelan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}