Dublin hospital apologises for failings that led to death of man from anaphylactic shock

The court heard the family had waited for 10 years 'for some accountability, 10 years of reliving what happened on that fatal day and carrying a loss that never eases'

In the letter of apology, St James’s Hospital expressed sincere condolences to the Staines family. File picture: Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

St James’s Hospital in Dublin has apologised for the failings that led to the death of a 53-year-old man who went into anaphylactic shock when he was given a steroid pain injection.

Father of five, Martin Staines, from Tallaght, Dublin, suffered a fatal reaction to an agent known as polyethylene glycol which was in the steroid injection.