Jury retires in inquest into death of mother

An inquest jury has been told to return either a narrative verdict or medical misadventure over the death of a first-time mother from multi-organ failure days after an emergency caesarean section.

Dhara Kivlehan, 29 and 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.

An inquest into her death at Carrick-on-Shannon courthouse over five days has heard of a number of delays and deficiencies in her care at Sligo.