'I did feel like I was going to die': Sepsis claims almost 3,000 deaths a year

A staggering 60% of all hospital deaths in Ireland are related to sepsis

Conor Callaghan from Lucan who became seriously ill after developing sepsis in March of this year and was treated in three dublin hospitals Blanchardstown, Beaumont and the Mater. Picture: Moya Nolan

"I was told I was too fit and too aware for it to be sepsis."

Desperately unwell in March of this year, Conor Callaghan, a fit 24-year-old training for a marathon, asked medical staff if he might have sepsis. 'No' was the answer, "not at all".