Newborn’s death ‘due to gross failures of midwives’

A newborn baby died due to the gross failure of three midwives to provide basic medical care, a coroner has ruled.
Ida Lock was born at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) on 9 November 2019 but died a week later after suffering a serious brain injury due to a lack of oxygen.
After a five-week inquest at Preston County Hall, coroner James Adeley concluded that Ida’s death had been caused by the midwives’ failure to deliver the infant “urgently when it was apparent she was in distress” and contributed to by the lead midwife’s “wholly incompetent failure to provide basic neonatal resuscitation”.
He said there had been eight missed opportunities “to alter Ida’s clinical course”.
The inquest heard that Ida was transferred to the intensive care unit at Royal Preston Hospital’s neonatal unit, where she died on 16 November 2019.

Courtesy: BBC