Mother ‘knew’ that newborn had problems

A MOTHER never got the chance to say a proper goodbye to her son because a consultant failed to diagnose a severe congenital disorder, it has been claimed.

Jane Kenny’s son Ruairi was born at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, on December 5, 2009, and died six days later at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, Dublin.

Ms Kenny told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry that on the day Ruairi died, she had nothing to put on him that would fit him and had to leave him in a hospital wrapped in a towel. She said that as a mother she found that particularly upsetting.