Report into death of Aoife Johnston to be published next week
Vivienne Clarke
The chief executive of the Health Service Executive, Bernard Gloster has said that he expects to publish a report next week into the death of Co Clare teenager Aoife Johnston at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) in December 2022.
“The best possible timeframe I can give you is that it is within the current two week period that we’re in. It is most likely early next week,” he told RTÉ radio.
“In relation to the commentary about what the content will be or won’t be, it has been and always is and remains my intention to not in any way interfere with the substance of the report, to publish the full substance of the report.
"But people will be aware, people will understand I am duty bound by law to have regard to the rights also of other people in terms of their personal, detailed information.
“But I can assure you that in no way will that take from the integrity of the excellent report that Mr. Justice Clarke has provided me with and which I will comment on in a lot of detail when I do publish it.”
Mr Gloster said that he was very conscious that every time the case was spoken of that there was a family involved who were coping with what had been “the worst possible outcome.”
Aoife Johnston died of meningitis after she was referred to the hospital's overcrowded Emergency Department with suspected sepsis that went untreated for over 12 hours.
