Grieving husband fears other women will continue to die in childbirth

A grieving husband spoke yesterday about his terror that other pregnant women will die in childbirth just like his wife Sally Rowlette did nearly three years ago.

Michael Kivlehan

Sean Rowlette said that if inquests were mandatory for maternal deaths, he is convinced his wife Sally’s life could have been saved thanks to information from an inquiry into the death of a woman treated at the same hospital.

But Dhara Kivlehan’s widower, Michael, fought for four years before he got an inquest into her death.