University Hospital Waterford offered its sincerest apologies to the Murphy and said it acknowledged that the experience was devastating for them. Photograph: Google Street ViewA hospital has offered its “sincerest apologies” following the death of a 76-year-old woman who collapsed and died after taking a type of antibiotic.
The family’s counsel, Jeremy Maher SC, instructed by Cian O’Carroll solicitors, told the court the death of Ms Murphy, a mother of five and grandmother to 12 from Pilltown, was truly tragic and should never have happened.
The Murphy family, including Ms Murphy’s husband of 47 years, Seán Murphy, on Friday settled an action against the HSE over the death and for nervous shock for a total of €400,000. In the proceedings against the HSE, it was claimed that Ms Murphy was taken by ambulance to the hospital in September 2018 complaining of pain in her neck and shoulder and breathlessness. She was admitted to UHW for a cardiological assessment and investigation. She was noted as being allergic to penicillin and that the type of allergy was anaphylaxis.
On January 29th, 2019, she attended her GP complaining of pain in her back radiating into her shoulder and chest from and she was prescribed the same antibiotic she had in hospital.
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