The visit was specially arranged during lockdown on seats outside because she had lost her son and Ultan’s stepson,, who also lived at Kilbrew, to coronavirus just six weeks earlier. Adrian had Down’s syndrome and dementia.
The side of his face was black with congealed blood. His nails were long and black from picking at his facial tumours, which had become an open wound and infected.Wearing full protective clothing to guard against Covid-19, she felt compelled to take off her gloves and cut his nails herself; her requests to the home had gone ignored, she said
Visiting restrictions at nursing homes from early March meant Mary had been unable to bring her son and husband home at weekends since February. Most weekends, she bathed her husband, and cleaned his wound. She knew how to calm him; she gave him a sweet and put on some music.On May 29th, two weeks after Mary visited and following sustained pressure from Mary, her advocate and a HSE social worker to have Ultan seen by a local GP, he was assessed.
On June 15th, with her husband’s health deteriorating rapidly, Mary was permitted to spend an hour with him. By then, his wound was bandaged and he had been shaved.Call for inquiry into death of Meath nursing home resident with infected facial woundA medical certificate put sepsis as the cause of death but also listed “Covid in April 2020” as one of several underlying health conditions.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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