Woman had to wait 40 minutes for blood op

Almost 40 minutes passed before a blood transfusion was given to a woman who suffered major blood loss following an emergency caesarean section at the National Maternity Hospital.

The inquest into Nora Hyland’s death heard that an emergency supply of blood was not kept in the operating theatre at the time.

Mrs Hyland, 31, a Malaysian woman living at Charlotte Quay in Dublin 4, died on the operating table on Feb 13 last year having suffered a cardiac event an hour after the caesarean was completed.