Toxic reaction to drugs may have led to new mother’s death

An independent expert has suggested that a young mother who died in childbirth after suffering major bleeding may have had a toxic reaction to drugs administered as doctors tried to save her, an inquest has heard.

Nora Hyland, aged 31, a Malaysian woman living at Charlotte Quay in Dublin, died on the operating table at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), Holles St, on February 13, 2012, within three hours of undergoing an emergency caesarean section to deliver her son, Frederick.

The inquest at Dublin Coroner’s Court had heard that a labelling error in the laboratory contributed to a 37-minute delay in Mrs Hyland receiving a blood transfusion.