Pregnant woman died after uterus ruptured

A verdict of medical misadventure was returned at the inquest into the death of a woman whose uterus ruptured after she was medically induced at the Rotunda Hospital to deliver her stillborn baby.

Bimbo Onanuga, aged 32, a Nigerian-born mother of one who lived in Finglas, Dublin 11, died on Mar 4, 2010, having suffered massive internal bleeding.

Doctors at the Rotunda discovered the rupture when they carried out an emergency caesarean section after she went into cardiac arrest.