NEGLECT played a part in the death of a 33-day-old baby born in the Hospital six years ago.
A five-day inquest into the death of Amelia Amber Sweetpea Clyde-Smith concluded on Friday, finding that there had been “failings” by the midwifery team.
Amelia, who was born in the Hospital in August 2018 , died from bronchial pneumonia and brain damage caused when not enough oxygen reaches a baby’s brain before or shortly after birth.
Coroner Bridget Dolan said staff would have spotted the signs of abnormality earlier if Amelia and her mother had been properly monitored, and concluded: “The development of ischaemic encephalopathy (brain damage) had been contributed to by neglect when on the labour ward.
“I find that these failings in the midwifery team were neglect.”
