Nurse: Woman who died days after hysterectomy ‘very sick’ in HDU

A NURSE has told an inquest into the death of a woman following an elective hysterectomy at a private Dublin hospital that she was “very sick” when she was transferred to the facility’s high dependency unit and the nurse “knew something serious was wrong”, an inquest has heard.

Linda Royal, 50, of Forest Green, Kingswood Heights, Tallaght, Dublin, was transferred to the high dependency unit (HDU) at Mount Carmel Hospital on the morning of September 28, 2008, six days after a procedure to remove her womb at the hospital.

The mother of three was transferred to St James’s Hospital later that day where she died from the complications of septicaemia the following day.