Bereaved family had ‘grave concern’ over doctor’s level of care

THE family of a woman who died at St James’ Hospital in Dublin five days after being admitted with repeated complaints of vomiting and stomach cramps has expressed “grave concern” about the level of care provided by a doctor at the hospital.

An Irish Medical Council inquiry in Dublin yesterday heard Colette Donohoe felt “bunched” more than 24 hours before she died after vomiting brown fluid which was likened to “bad diarrhoea”.

Ms Donohoe, a 54-year-old mother of two from Derry Road, Crumlin, died on August 22, 2006, as a result of complications from an obstruction to her bowel by a hernia.