Hospital puts new safeguards in place after baby death

NEW safeguards have been introduced at a hospital where a baby died after being delivered by caesarean section five weeks before her due date.

At an inquest in Dublin earlier this week, the mother, Therese Darcy Lampf, claimed she was repeatedly told by staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital that the wrong due date had been inserted in her medical file but had been reassured that her revised due date was the correct one.

It was only when her daughter, Jessica, was born on July 8, 2003 by elective caesarian section that staff realised that the child was premature and not full-term as had been expected.