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The parents of Shannon teenager, Aoife Johnston, who died in University Hospital Limerick in December of 2022, will speak out publicly for the first time on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme this evening, October 3. Aoife’s parents, Carol and James, will speak about the night she presented at UHL with suspected sepsis and waited nearly 14 hours for treatment at the Emergency Department. A recently published report into the incident has confirmed that her death was “almost certainly avoidable.” “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t blame myself for not doing more later on during the night, and just… I just didn’t think she was going to die. Like, I really. I just. If I had. If I had known, I would have torn the place apart, but I just didn’t. Just didn’t think like, that she was going to die on us. I really didn’t,” said James Johnston. The official report into Aoife’s death highlights significant delays …
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