A widow has accused Cork University Hospital (CUH) of failings in care after her 34-year-old husband died from a ruptured aorta following a delayed diagnosis. Patrick Murphy, who had agonising chest pain, waited nine hours for a bed and died the following day after emergency surgery.
Cork University Hospital has apologised “unreservedly and sincerely” for “failings in care” during the admission of father of one Patrick Murphy on September 1st, 2021. It has also apologised for the failure by medics to diagnose an aortic dissection .
“It had been nine hours from his arrival until he was given a bed. I got texts and calls that day with updates - urine tests and a scan to determine kidney stones. The scan had to be pushed out to the following day, as the one in A&E was broken,” Ms Krishnan Murphy said. Ms Krishnan Murphy said she was left haunted and scarred by what the hospital told her at meetings following the death of her husband.
Ms Krishnan Murphy said that her “caring partner” who was a “doting father” could have been saved with “timely interventions”. Consultant neuro radiologist at CUH Dr Gerald Wyse said that one of the two CT scanners at CUH wasn’t functioning for a period of 21 hours when Mr Murphy was in hospital.
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