CUH patient who died by suicide did not have access to medication for two days, inquest hears

Prescribed antidepressant was unavailable due to 'sourcing issues' at hospital pharmacy

The inquest heard Oliver McCarthy, a patient in the psychiatric ward at CUH, expressed frustration about his medication just 10 minutes before his death on December 14, 2022. Picture: Larry Cummins

A Cork University Hospital patient who died by suicide did not have access to a prescribed antidepressant for the two days leading up to his death due to “sourcing issues”, an inquest has heard.

The inquest heard Oliver McCarthy, a 47-year-old father of two from Kinsale in Cork, expressed frustration about his medication just 10 minutes before his death on December 14, 2022.