Hospital accused of ‘systems failure’

THE family of a woman whose lung cancer was only detected after her death has accused the South Tipperary General Hospital  where she died of “systems failure”.

An inquest into the death of Teresa Doyle (50) from Marian Avenue in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, heard that she died from a rare form of lung cancer that can be difficult to detect.

But on several occasions, Ms Doyle’s family asked hospital doctors if lung cancer was a possibility and told that it wasn’t. Her niece was told in the weeks before she died that cancer was “not on the radar”. (Independent) >