No evidence of mistake during operation, says coroner

A WOMAN suffered septic shock and died nine days after being admitted to a hospital where surgery to rejoin her bowel was unsuccessful, an inquest heard yesterday.

Kitty Donnelly, aged 80, from Dundalk Road, Carlingford, was admitted to the Louth County Hospital on August 27, 2004, with a bowel extension and abdominal pain. The mother-of-10, who had adopted five children, was found to have a tumour causing an obstruction in her bowel.

Surgeon Dr Ibraham Ahmed told Dundalk Coroner’s Court that on September 1, he operated on Ms Donnelly and removed the tumour which looked malignant.