Pensioner drowned in hospital bath, inquest hears

A 76-year-old woman, who had a history of depression, drowned in a bath at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, an inquest heard tonight.

Nurse Filemon Pachico told how he found a patient, Kathleen Curtin, of Malahide Road, Kinsealy face down in a bath full of water on May 23, 2004.