Alison Blake took her own life one year after regulators were implored to find mesh-injured women

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated January 16 2018 - 1:17pm, first published January 15 2018 - 5:00am
Lost: Alison Blake and daughter Leesa Tolhurst. Mrs Blake took her own life in June, 2015 after complications following pelvic mesh surgery in 2013.
Lost: Alison Blake and daughter Leesa Tolhurst. Mrs Blake took her own life in June, 2015 after complications following pelvic mesh surgery in 2013.

STATE and federal health bodies were urged to audit a NSW private hospital, and find injured women, one year before primary school teacher Alison Blake took her own life after devastating complications following pelvic mesh surgery at the hospital.

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