‘Investigate doctor who failed our little boy’

The parents of a two-year-old boy who died from the effects of massive blood loss after an artery was punctured in a routine surgical procedure want the doctor they believe failed their son investigated by the Medical Council.

Jean and Stephen Nowlan yesterday received an undisclosed High Court settlement and an apology from Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, more than seven years after the death of their little boy, Pierce.

However, in a statement, they criticised the “wall of silence” and the “culture of denial” they said they had to face from the hospital.