A review into the death of a four-year-old girl just 12 hours after she had been discharged from a hospital in Dublin a year ago found a series of shortcomings which led to the medical staff failing to recognise she was displaying symptoms of a serious bacterial infection.
Temple Street Hospital in Dublin has promised to act on a coroner’s recommendations including mandatory checks of vital signs before discharge in caring for children with suspected sepsis.
BY EOIN REYNOLDSTHE Court of Appeal has rejected a bid by a mother to set aside her plea of guilty to the repeated harassment of a doctor who was working at the hospital where her son was awaiting a kidney transplant.Marlies Walsh, representing herself at the three-judge court, a