Teenager died of meningitis after she was left for more than 13 hours at Limerick hospital without antibiotic treatment, report finds
in 2022 has warned that it could happen again unless bed shortages and overcrowding in its emergency department are resolved., from Shannon in Co Clare, died of meningitis on December 19th, 2022, at UHL, after she was left for more than 13 hours without antibiotics, a vital treatment to help save her life.
Mr Clarke added that “unless and until” the shortage of beds is addressed it seems likely the ED will “unfortunately but regularly be under pressure” and that despite improvements since 2022, “a risk of reoccurrence will inevitably be present”. Doctors and nurses in the ED were “unaware” of Ms Johnston’s sepsis risk, the independent report found, as she was brought to an area of the ED where sepsis forms were typically not kept.
Mr Clarke highlighted capacity concerns. Other EDs in the midwest were closed in 2009, resulting in all serious emergency patients being directed towards UHL in Dooradoyle. Phil Ní Sheaghdha, general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation , said: “It could not be clearer that the State’s inpatient bed capacity must be improved in tandem with safe levels of nurses and doctors to deliver care and treatment.”, chief executive of the HSE, said “we failed Aoife and our failure has resulted in the most catastrophic consequences for her and her family”.
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