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A SOLICITOR who has vowed to become a thorn in the side of the State, over its handling of MRSA, has said deaths associated with the superbug should be investigated by coro- ners because they are not natural deaths.
Jan Simon of Brian Lynch and Associates, Galway, told the meet- ing of MRSA sufferers
and concerned relatives that he would be issu- Tb OTSam Watomm DCM o U1 MB OO MEU I) MRSA case later this Neto e
“IT am acting for be- reaved families, acting for ordinary people who came out badly maimed or dead. We (the com- pany of solicitors) are eating, breathing and sleeping MRSA. They need a solicitor to be a thorn in the side of the State,’ he said.
The company has employed a doctor with experience of working abroad to help with the or eh
The solicitor told the meeting in the Clare Inn that he had to go abroad to find an expert willing to speak out.
Mr. Simon said that cases relating to MRSA had already been taken in London, but it was only in the last year that people in Ireland