HSE may discipline staff over choke death

THE HSE may discipline staff at a psycho-geriatric hospital where a patient died after slipping down a chair and choking on a restraining belt.

Hannah Comber, 75, died at Heatherside Hospital, near Buttevant, County Cork in June 2006.

The diagnosed schizophrenic had been a long-stay patient at the hospital and was put in the restraining chair in a day room after she woke at night and became restless.