'Skin pallor was less obvious due to ethnicity': HSE review into woman's death after childbirth

'Skin pallor was less obvious due to ethnicity': HSE review into woman's death after childbirth

Nayyab Tariq died on March 22 last year after giving birth to a healthy baby girl, also called Nayyab, at Mayo University Hospital.

Delays in recognising that a young woman was in shock after giving birth "may have contributed" to her death, an internal HSE review has found.

One of the indications of a patient being in shock is when they appear pale, an inquest into the death of Nayyab Tariq has been told in Mayo.

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