Extreme bed sores led to death by sepsis, coroner finds

Pathologist Dr Margot Bolster told Cork County Coroner's Court that an autopsy was carried out on October 10, 2023.

A woman who contracted sepsis due to extreme bed sores and a colon infection died due to an absence of timely medical care, the Cork South Coroner has ruled.

Clare O’Connell, 48, died at her home in Bandon, Cork, of sepsis due to extreme pressure ulceration and morbid obesity with clostridium difficile, a colon infection which would have caused severe diarrhoea.