Midwife told doctor to refer scan results to consultant

A midwife with concerns over a pregnant woman’s scan told a junior doctor to liaise with his consultant and told him she could not stand by his decision to discharge her, an inquest has heard.

Sally Hanford, a registered midwife at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, only later learned that Amy Delahunt had been discharged by Dr Chuck Ugezu when she went to consult her chart. The baby, Mary Kate Kelly, was found to be dead in a scan carried out in Limerick on the following day.

Ms Hanford told an inquest in Limerick into the baby’s death, she felt Ms Delahunt should have been kept on monitoring and that she had conveyed this to Dr Ugezu.