Hospital apology in baby death case ‘too late’

“It’s a total disgrace what we had to do to obtain justice for our innocent baby Caoimhe.”

Hospital apology in baby death case ‘too late’

That was the damning verdict against the HSE given by a Limerick couple who had to endure six years of “pain and torment” after their newborn died in 2009 at the then Mid-Western Regional Hospital. A jury at Limerick Coroners Court yesterday returned a verdict of medical misadventure.

Speaking outside the court, Caoimhe’s parents, John and Joan Mulcair, said: “The persons involved should be ashamed of themselves for putting an ordinary decent family through the pain and torment that we had to endure for over six years.”

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