Woman choked to death ‘due to side effect of medication’

A 64-YEAR-OLD patient in a psychiatric hospital choked to death due to a side effect of medication, an inquest heard yesterday.

Anne Sheeran, who had been a long-term resident of St Brendan’s Hospital in Dublin since 1994, was found lying unconscious near the toilets on September 1, 2003.

A psychiatric nurse at the hospital, Joan Tolan, told the Dublin City Coroner’s Court when she found her there was a small piece of bread in her mouth.