Elderly woman died days after falling in hospital

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman who fell out of a hospital harness onto her head died of natural causes five days later, an inquest heard yesterday.

Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster said Kathleen Donovan, from Ballyphehane in Cork, died in the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) of congestive heart failure.

Dr Bolster said she found no evidence of skull fracture, brain injury or haemorrhage.