Deaths of garda and her baby a reminder of hospital’s troubles

THE night Tania McCabe and one of her newborn twins died was one that staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda must wish they could forget.

Deaths of garda and her baby a reminder of hospital’s troubles

As they battled to save the young mother and her baby sons, they were also fighting a gut-wrenching feeling of failure, knowing they had sent her home two days earlier after missing the signs of her impending medical crisis.

For the doctors, midwives and nurses who pushed their medical skills and manpower to the limit that night, Tania was a reminder of what was wrong at the hospital and how little power they had to make things right.

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