A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

No intensive care bed could be found in four Irish hospitals for a young mother as she lay at “death’s door” days after an emergency Caesarean section, the inquest into her death has heard.

The inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan has heard that she was in renal failure in Sligo General Hospital, up to six days before her death in September 2010.