HSE chief: 'Our failure' led to Aoife Johnston's death

Bernard Gloster again apologised to Aoife Johnston's family, saying the health service 'failed' her

Aoife Johnston. Picture: David Raleigh

University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is safer now than on the night Aoife Johnston died there, the chief executive of the HSE has claimed.

Ms Johnston, 16, died in December 2022 in UHL after suffering from meningitis-related sepsis and was left for more than 16 hours without antibiotics.