THE PARENTS of the late Shannon teenager Aoife Johnston, who died after waiting nearly 14 hours for treatment at the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick, will break their silence for the first time on-air tonight.
On RTÉ Prime Time tonight, Aoife Johnston’s mother and father, Carol and James, are interviewed about the grief and the harrowing hours leading up to their 16-year old daughter’s death.
Aoife, who presented with suspected sepsis at UHL in December 2022, passed away after a delay in receiving medical care. A recently published report into the incident has confirmed that her death was “almost certainly avoidable”.
Speaking about the night Aoife was admitted to UHL, her father, James Johnston said: “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t blame myself for not doing more later on during the night, and just… I just didn’t think she was going to die. Like, I really. I just. If I had. If I had known, I would have torn the place apart, but I just didn’t. Just didn’t think like, that she was going to die on us. I really didn’t.”
RTÉ Prime Time airs tonight (October 3) at 9.35pm on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.
