Savita blood sample returned, inquest told

A blood test that would have spotted Savita Halappanavar’s fatal sepsis infection was not processed the morning she miscarried, it was confirmed.

The sample was sent to a laboratory to check lactate levels at around 7am on Wednesday, October 24, but returned as the test should have been carried out at a point of care unit on the ward, a barrister for Galway University Hospital told the inquest into her death.