Delay in reviewing blood test ‘a mistake’

A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

Dhara Kivlehan, originally from India, died in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital on September 28, 2010, after being airlifted from Sligo hospital where she had given birth and suffered a severe strain of pre- eclampsia.

The inquest at Carrick- on-Shannon courthouse was told a range of blood tests over the first 36 hours of her care examined 17 parameters and showed kidney failure and liver dysfunction.