The HSE has apologised to the family of a teenager who died of meningitis at University Hospital Limerick, for the “serious failings in the care” provided to the girl at the hospital.
A teenager who died of meningitis in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) waited 12 hours in an overcrowded emergency department before she was treated for sepsis, as her family desperately flagged her deteriorating condition.
A damning internal review of the circumstances of the death of Aoife Johnston, (16), from Shannon, Co Clare, was provided to her family last week, it emerged on Sunday.
A teenager who died of meningitis in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) waited 12 hours in an overcrowded emergency department before she was treated for sepsis, as her family desperately flagged her deteriorating condition.