Son’s body ‘was left for hours in ward’

THE body of a teenager who died after surgery was left in a ward with up to 20 patients for three hours after he died, his grieving family revealed yesterday.

Kenneth Payne, 19, from Ballynanty Beg, died on February 3 at the Mid Western Regional Hospital.

The Limerick Institute of Technology student had undergone an emergency operation for the removal of his appendix hours earlier.