A Donegal nursing home has put new patient care structures in place after a 97-year-old resident was given almost ten times the recommended dose of morphine.
Some weeks earlier on April 23rd, she had contracted Covid and was put into isolation in the nursing home but was asymptomatic. A report on Mrs Glackin's care and her final days was given to the inquest by Abhilash Pattathil who was in charge of the facility. He suggested that Mrs Glackin had died as a result of multi-organ failure, secondary to a recent bout of Covid saying he did not believe the excess drug had a material effect on Mrs Glackin's death.
The court was also told that since the incident, Larissa Lodge has now put in place a number of operational changes to ensure that such an incident does not happen again.