'No one else should die in that hospital' - Johnston family haunted by preventable death of their 'cool kid' Aoife at 'death trap' UHL

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.

Read at Irish Independent