Hospital consultant issued instruction not to resuscitate vulnerable young patient at UHL

The girl and her mother believed that the doctor had improperly presumed that the girl should not be resuscitated because of her physical disability

Dr Zaid, who has also worked in St James’s Hospital in Dublin and the Mercy Hospital in Cork, had been dealing with a “very difficult hospital situation” on the day as he was providing care for 70 patients, including 40 new patients. File picture

A hospital consultant has appeared before a medical inquiry over his direction that a vulnerable young patient at University Hospital Limerick did not have the capacity to decide herself if she should be resuscitated in the event of a cardiac arrest.

Dr Hassan Zaid was accused of poor professional performance over his care of a young Leaving Certificate student with cerebral palsy at UHL seven years ago while acting as a locum consultant.