Desperate for the truth: Parents seek answers after daughter, 20, died suddenly in hospital A&E

The distraught parents of a 20-year-old student who died suddenly and inexplicably last month in an emergency department (ED) within 12 hours of presenting for treatment have been unable to get any answers from the hospital as to what went wrong.

Denisse Kyle Dasco passed away at the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in Cork on April 21.

However, in the intervening five weeks, her parents, Carlos and Gwen Dasco, have not been given an opportunity to speak to any senior clinicians at the hospital about what might have caused their daughter’s death. This is despite the hospital committing to implementing the HSE’s open disclosure policy in 2014.