Hospital apologises for failings in care to grandmother who died five months after falling down stairs

Multiple rib fractures on a 75-year-old woman were not identified when she was x-rayed and scanned in hospital after she fell down the stairs at her home and she later died, the High Court heard today.

Grandmother of six Christina McGagh had seven fractures to her ribs at the right side of her chest and was in pain. Counsel for the McGagh family Patrick Treacy SC told the court there was a failure when Mrs McGagh was brought to St Luke's Hospital, Carlow-Kilkenny after her stairs fall to identify the multiple fractures in her right-side chest area.