HSE apologise after mum believed death of newborn at Portlaoise was her fault

Midlands Regional Hospital apologised in the High Court to a couple whose baby son died at the Portlaoise hospital nine years ago.

Little Dylan Franks died in the operating theatre not long after his birth on March 6, 2007.

The court yesterday heard that a huge distress for Dylan’s parents was the the fact at his inquest, HSE witnesses stated the cause of the baby boy’s death was chronic utero placental insufficiency and, and as a result, Dylan’s mother thought she was responsible because she had smoked during her pregnancy.