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Nora Hyland waited 40 minutes for a blood transfusion, the inquest heard.
The 35-year-old widower also said there was much to be done to protect pregnant women in Ireland.
Earlier today, the former Master of Holles St Hospital hit out at the lack of continuity of care at senior consultant level afforded to Dhara Kivlehan the week before her death.
A verdict is expected from the jury later today.
Dr Peter Boylan will appear before the Coroner’s Court as an expert witness ahead of the verdict.
Dr Seamus Crowley said he was sorry if the woman’s husband had been insulted during the conversation they had about her care.
The inquest has heard about a number of angry exchanges between the bereaved and a consultant.
The inquest into the 29 year old’s death continues today.
Dr Paul Glover said his colleagues would not have put the patient through the procedures they did if there was no hope.
However the doctor who looked after the 29-year-old said that this did not affect her overall care.
Her family feel something could have been done if she was not “at death’s door” when she got to Belfast.
The inquest also heard that a request to transfer Dhara Kivlehan to ICU was not acted on for eight hours.
The inquest into the death of the 29 year old after she gave birth to her first son continues in Carrick-on-Shannon.
The 29 year old died four years ago after giving birth to a baby boy.
The gardaí are investigating the sudden death of a 72-year-old man at the care home in 2012.
Compassion for a fellow human being should not change just because a poor soul happened to be an addict.
Association for the Improvement in the Maternity Services has said that more witnesses should be compelled to appear before the inquiry.
The six survivors have met up every year since the tragedy and hope to continue to so so in the future.
The Fairchild Metro EC-ITP aircraft crashed, overturned and caught fire on its third attempt to land at the airport in 2011.
The last burglary, in which no personal items were stolen, happened on Friday 9 May.
Brian Murray and Mark O’Shaughnessy died when called to a factory fire in 2007.
A short inquest hearing was held today head of a full investigation in July.
The daughter of Bob Geldof was found dead at her home in Kent last month.
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive.
Donaldson worked for Sinn Féin in the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont before being outed as an MI5 agent in 2005 and later shot dead.
The 18-year-old was found dead near Leicester Square on 6 February after he had gone missing while on a DCU society trip.
Mark Duggan did not have a gun in his hand at the time he was shot by police in August 2011.
The only survivor of a crash, which killed her baby, her husband and her unborn child questioned how police dealt with information about the suicidal taxi driver who drove into their family vehicle.
The apology comes after the publication of a damning HIQA report into Savita’s treatment at University Hospital Galway.
The coroner said there was “not a shred of evidence” that 23-year-old Dominic Elliott had intended to take his own life.
The fishing vessel sank off the coast of Cork in January last year with just one member of the crew surviving.
A location for the inquests is still to be determined with victims’ families divided on the matter.
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Mr Halappanavar said he has a responsibility to Savita and her family “to get to the bottom of the truth”.