No CT scan for woman who died from haemorrhage

A FEMALE security guard at Shannon Airport died from a brain haemorrhage just weeks after she was sent home from the Mid-Western Regional Hospital where she was wrongly diagnosed as suffering from migraine, an inquest in Limerick heard.

Louise Butler, aged 21, of Cappa Lodge, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, died at the hospital on November 16, 2006.

She had been discharged on October 12, with severe headaches despite pleas, by her and her mother to have a CT scan carried out but to no avail.