Inquest hears death of newborn baby girl at Rotunda Hospital has no obvious explanation

A number of recommendations had subsequently been implemented at the Rotunda Hospital including staff education about complex cases and the provision of ECG monitors in every delivery room. File picture

An inquest has heard there was no obvious explanation for the “sudden and unexpected” death of a baby girl one day after her birth at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin three years ago.

A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard the baby’s mother, Mary Corcoran from Loughbarn, Skerries, Co. Dublin, had experienced a normal pregnancy with what was her first child and was eight days over term when she presented in labour at the hospital on May 8, 2019.