Delay key factor in baby’s death

A delay in carrying out a caesarean section is understood to have been a key component in the death of a newborn baby boy at Cavan General Hospital.

The Irish Examiner understands that the theatre was in use when a C-section was requested for the woman on Saturday, April 26.

Sources close to the hospital said that the theatre was being used to perform an appendectomy on a child and by the time it was available to the woman, a “crash” section had been called.