Lack of oxygen during delivery led to baby’s death

A BABY boy died one week after his birth by emergency caesarean section following a failed forceps delivery at the National Maternity Hospital, an inquest has heard.

Daniel McGovern was in very poor health after his birth at the hospital at Holles Street, Dublin, on November 16, 2010.

Coroner Dr Brian Farrell recorded the cause of the baby’s death as severe brain injury due to the lack of oxygen to the brain, which was in turn caused by birth trauma.