Crumlin hospital criticised over Róisín Ruddle death
A report into the death of two-year-old Róisín Ruddle last year has criticised management at Crumlin children’s hospital for failing to tackle a shortage of intensive care nurses.
The Limerick toddler, who was born with a heart defect, died last July a day after her planned operation at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children was cancelled due to a lack of paediatric intensive care nurses.
An official report into her death, due to be published today, said her likelihood of survival would have been greater if the surgery had gone ahead as planned.
The report said the shortage of nurses should have been foreseen by the hospital, but it failed to put measures in place to deal with the problem.
However, it also said that the medical care provided to Roisin Ruddle was “appropriate”.
