‘I hope it’s a wake-up call for the medical profession’

THE mother of a young man who died following a litany of medical failures and errors said the family pursued a negligence action not for money but because of the “grave injustice” suffered by her son.

Vital blood test results were attached to the back of a GP's referral letter on a "post-it" and were not spotted by a hospital consultant until six weeks after the death of Kevin Murphy, aged 21, the High Court heard.

Mr Murphy, from Montenotte in Cork, died of a heart attack as a result of severe hypercalcaemia excess levels of calcium in the blood.