Family speaks out to prevent more deaths

A FAMILY that had to ask a coroner to investigate their mother’s death has spoken out to ensure similar tragedies are prevented.

Breda Dunlea, 69, of Ballybrack, Carrignavar, Co Cork, died on December 12, 2006, after antibiotics prescribed by her GP to treat a chest infection interacted with the blood-thinning medication warfarin, Cork City Coroner’s Court was told.

It triggered a fatal brain haemorrhage, but doctors in the Mercy University Hospital recorded her death as due to “natural causes” and no postmortem was ordered.