Transfer patient 'beyond repair'

No intensive care bed could be found in four Irish hospitals for a young mother as she lay at “death’s door” days after an emergency Caesarean section, the inquest into her death has heard.

Dhara Kivlehan died in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital on September 28 2010, after being airlifted from Sligo hospital where she had given birth and suffered a severe strain of pre-eclampsia.