Nurse says doctor told her he saw blood-test results in chicken pox sepsis case

A nurse said a doctor facing allegations of poor professional performance for his treatment of a child who had chicken pox told her he had seen blood-test results, but had failed to write these on a medical chart.

Mia Carlin was admitted to Letterkenny University Hospital on June 24, 2013, with chicken pox, but developed sepsis. Blood tests were ordered the day before she was transferred from Letterkenny to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, in Dublin, but there was a delay in taking the sample, a Medical Council inquiry heard.

Matthew Thomas, Oak Grove, Woodlands, Letterkenny, is before this fitness-to-practice inquiry, relating to his care of Mia, who was 16 months old at the time.