A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

A senior doctor has apologised over a heated conversation he had with the husband of a new mother as her condition deteriorated following an emergency Caesarean section.

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

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.