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Over four days of harrowing testimony at Aoife Johnston’s inquest, the most wrenching described her final hours on a trolley at University Hospital Limerick’s (UHL) teeming “death-trap” emergency department as her life ebbed away before her parents’ eyes. She did not go gentle into that good night.
The heartbroken parents of Aoife Johnston (16) fought back tears as they revealed how they begged doctors and nurses at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) to help their sick daughter.
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Parents of 16-year-old girl who died at University Hospital Limerick following a failure in her care give evidence
Aoife Johnston (16) died after waiting over 12 hours for critical treatment at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) as a coroner's inquest was told by a senior nurse manager the overcrowding situation in the emergency department that night was "akin to a war zone".
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