Doctor breaks down at inquest into Tatenda Mukwata's death at Kerry hospital

The third day of Ms Mukwata's inquest heard that staff at University Hospital Kerry had carried out four C-sections on the night she died, in a "challenging shift" for nurses and clinicians

Tatenda Mukwata who died on April 21 at University Hospital Kerry after giving birth to a healthy baby.

A South African obstetrician gynaecologist who had been working in Ireland for just three months at the time Tatenda Mukwata died in University Hospital Kerry broke down at her inquest on Tuesday, asking if he could meet her family. 

Dr Fahad Hendricks was assigned to the high-risk ante-natal clinic and was working his third 24-hour shift in less than a week on April 20. At 17.30 he went to meet Tatenda, with whom he had “a good rapport”.