HSE to pay €790k after death of mum

The HSE has agreed to pay €790,000 and “unreservedly” apologised to the family of a 29-year-old Indian woman who became seriously ill in Sligo Regional Hospital at the time of the birth of her first child, but died eight days later.

Dhara Kivlehan, who had a healthy baby boy, was airlifted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on her fourth day in the Sligo hospital, but the High Court heard that by that time, her condition was “inevitably doomed”.

A separate action by her husband Michael Kivlehan, Dromhair, Co Leitrim, for nervous shock as a result of the death of Dhara, from Ahmedabad, India, on Sept 28, 2010, was previously settled for a “substantial sum”.