Widower was ‘angry’ as he questioned wife’s care

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

Dhara Kivlehan, 29, 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 a week earlier and suffered a severe strain of pre-eclampsia.

The inquest at Carrick-on-Shannon courthouse heard consultant anaesthetist Dr Seamus Crowley spoke to her husband Michael on the maternity ward the day after she underwent an emergency Caesarian section.