Image: RollingNews.ie Image: RollingNews.ie A WOMAN WHO is seriously ill in hospital arising out of an eating disorder is opposed to being made a ward of court, the High Court heard today.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has suffered from various illnesses since childhood and is currently being treated for Anorexia nervosa in a hospital.The HSE claims that her life is at risk and that she lacks insight and capacity to fully understand what is happening to her or how ill she really is.
As a result, earlier this week the HSE, represented by Patrica Hill Bl applied for and secured High Court orders allowing it to detain the woman in the hospital and apply treatments that her physicians believe are necessary to save her life. Other orders include granting the gardaí the power to return her to the hospital she is being treated at if she should leave. The HSE has also brought proceedings aimed at making the woman a ward of court.