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Aoife Johnston inquest hears University Hospital Limerick 'was like a war-zone'

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Dr Leandri Card said she has quit working in the HSE because of Aoife's death

A doctor who treated Aoife Johnston before her death has told an inquest University Hospital Limerick was like a war-zone and an impossible situation.Dr Leandri Card said she has quit working in the HSE because of Aoife's death and admitted it was bad practice that doctors gave medication to Emergency Department patients without examination.

Dr Card said it was the norm and the only way patients would get medication as quickly as possible, because doctors were too busy dealing with patients.She said that despite prescribing antibiotics for Aoife at 6.40am on December 18th to treat suspected meningitis, Aoife did not receive this medication for an hour and 15 minutes.

 

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