Woman died from ‘bed sores after nursing home’

A 73-YEAR-OLD woman died from massive bed sores which left gaping holes down to the bone after spending nine weeks in a Dublin nursing home, an inquest heard last night.

The daughter of Dorothy Black told how she moved her mother from Leas Crossnursing home in Dublin’s Swords after she developed “gigantic holes” in her body which contained “rotting, smelly flesh.”

Clodagh Black claimed that if it was not for her intervention to move Ms Black to Beaumont Hospital on November 24, 2003, her mother would have quickly died.