Hospital criticised in MRSA death

A FAMILY criticised a hospital’s infection control policies yesterday during the inquest into the MRSA-related death of their mother.

Sorcha Sexton told Cork Coroner’s Court that she had to threaten the city’s South Infirmary Hospital with legal action before it isolated her 70-year-old mother Joan Cronin after she tested positive for the deadly superbug infection on November 19, 2006, several weeks after admission.

Mrs Cronin, from Upper Dublin Hill in Cork, died in the hospital on November 24, from MRSA-related pneumonia.