Family seeking answers after video of 'disgusting' treatment of dementia suffering mother
A Limerick family has sought answers from the health service executive over the “disgusting” treatment of their late dementia-suffering mother at University Hospital Limerick.
Ita Tobin (83) from Ballynanty died peacefully surrounded by her family at a nursing home on August 23rd last year.
However, after enduring the heartache of the first anniversary of Ita’s death, last Sunday, her family discovered a video circulating on social media last Monday of an interaction between their mother and a health worker at University Hospital Limerick, prior to her death.
Ita, who had been battling the brain disease dementia, had been taken into the hospital at the time with a suspected heart attack.
She had lost her husband Gabriel Hogan, a former fisherman and soccer player with Ballynanty, Pike Rovers and Shelbourne, to a heart attack, 29 years ago.
In the heartbreaking footage, which went viral on social media, the healthcare worker is heard abruptly telling Ms Tobin, “No”, after...
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