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University Hospital Limerick (UHL) Chief Executive Colette Cowan has stepped aside from her role as part of a disciplinary process arising out of a second investigation report into the death of Shannon teenager Aoife Johnston, a local lobby group has claimed. The Mid-West Hospital Campaign has alleged that Ms Cowan and other senior figures working in UHL are facing possible disciplinary proceedings over the 16 year-old’s death in an overcrowded hospital in December 2022. It is understood that Ms Cowan has vacated her role temporarily pending the outcome of these disciplinary proceedings. Aoife presented at UHL at 5.40pm with suspected sepsis on December 17, 2022. According to evidence presented at her inquest last April, the hospital’s protocols on sepsis, which require sepsis queried patents to be seen urgently, were not properly followed. The teenager was not triaged until 7.15pm that night, and she did not receive antibiotics until it was too late. She died from meningitis at UHL on December …
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