HSE urged to speed up nursing home death probe

MORE than eight months after an elderly woman suffocated while strapped to a chair in a north Cork nursing home, two suspended nurses have still not been interviewed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) over the incident and the HSE has not completed its investigation.

HSE urged to speed up nursing home death probe

The two nurses, as well as a care worker, were suspended on full pay after Hannah Comber suffocated after becoming entangled in straps binding her to a special chair at Heatherside Hospital near Buttevant, Co Cork, on June 22.

The 65 year-old had been a resident there for 15 years.

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