A woman has won the go-ahead for a High Court claim over life-changing injuries she suffered after having a controversial vaginal mesh implant fitted that eroded her insides.
After Barbara Wise’s case against mesh manufacturer Johnson and Johnson and the surgeon who conducted the procedure was dismissed in September 2014 and then reopened in May this year, a High Court judge ruled against the surgeon’s family’s appeal.
More than 800 women are suing the NHS and the implants’ manufacturers after complaining of crippling pain in a scandal that has been compared to thalidomide.
The NHS has even been accused of sweeping complications, such as an inability to walk or have sex, under the carpet in an effort to dodge media attention.
After previously denying their implants were causing women’s discomfort, Johnson & Johnson paid out $57 million to a sufferer from Philadelphia last month after a jury found the company to be negligent and its product defective.
Pressure is mounting for a UK ban of the ‘gold-standard’ treatment for urinary stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
MPs discussed the impact of mesh implants in a debate in Westminster Hall yesterday.
