Hospital apologises for ‘repeated failings in care’ of Cork girl (2) as case settled for €5m
A leading paediatric hospital has unreservedly apologised in the High Court to the parents of a two-year- old Cork girl who suffered brain damage after she was transferred there for care after her birth.
Kitty Mae Hayes from Rosscarbery, the High Court heard, has the highest level of cerebral palsy, visual impairment and epilepsy and her counsel told the court of “repeated egregious failings in care at the Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Hospital, Crumlin which led to devastating consequences”.
The apology from the CHI Hospital interim chief executive Fiona Murphy was read out as Kitty Mae settled her High Court action with an interim payment of €5 million.
It said: “On behalf of Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, I wish to unreservedly apologise for the deficiencies in the care provided to your daughter Kitty Mae at the hospital resulting in the severity of injury sustained by Kitty Mae and the consequential distress and trauma suffered by you, her parents, her…
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