Operation on child necessary, inquest told

AN operation carried out on a young haemophiliac, who died three days after surgery at a Dublin hospital, was necessary for his continued treatment, an inquest heard yesterday.

Pierce Nowlan was admitted to Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin,on October 11, 2004, to have a device fitted into a vein that would have allowed the regular injections of a blood-clotting agent.

But the two-year-old lost one-and-a-half times his blood count following surgery after an artery was punctured as medics attempted to insert a canula.