‘Aoife was our baby, a cool kid. It breaks our hearts – it was a horrible death’
Coroner records verdict of death by medical misadventure in tragic case of Co Clare teenager who died of sepsis in December 2022
For James and Carol Johnston, Aoife (16) wasn’t just their baby girl – she was their “cool kid”. Aoife was a teenager who was “beautiful inside and out” according to her father, James, and someone who deserved far better than the horrific death she endured at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) in a critically overcrowded emergency department described by consultant Dr James Gray as “a death trap”.
Limerick Coroner John McNamara returned a verdict of death by medical misadventure for Aoife, who died after waiting over 15 hours for the antibiotics that would have saved her life just days before Christmas in 2022.
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