Monica Renwick (79), a mother of three and grandmother, passed away at her home at Grange Park Avenue, Raheny on October 23, 2020
An inquest has heard that a family took a Dublin woman home to die because of the poor treatment she was allegedly receiving in Beaumont Hospital where medical staff did not believe she was terminally ill.
They claimed there was poor communications from staff at Beaumont with numerous calls going unanswered and many requests for updates on Ms Renwick’s condition getting no response. Mr Renwick, who said the couple would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last year if his wife had lived, said his family had decided she would be better cared for at home because of the rapid weight loss, multiple skin tears and thrush she had developed in the hospital.
In reply to questions from coroner, Aisling Gannon, Mr Renwick said he did not want to take his wife out of Beaumont but his family had come to the view that she would receive better care at home than at the hospital. She said her mother, who had also survived breast cancer in 1974, had been declared cancer-free in March 2020.
“I will never forgive myself for not insisting she was moved out of Beaumont a lot earlier,” she concluded. The consultant said complications with procedures to remove a stoma only occurred in about five per cent of cases and it was unusual for them to start over 10 days after surgery. Asked about the patient’s weight loss, Professor Burke said hospital records indicated that Ms Renwick’s body mass index had stayed within a normal 20-25 range during her stay in Beaumont.
He also noted that Ms Renwick had been discharged from Beaumont by her family against the advice of hospital staff.
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