An inquest has heard that a fire alarm system had been silenced at a hospital in Dublin at a time a patient suffered fatal burns after a cigarette was lit near an oxygen cylinder in his ward.
A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard Joseph Murphy, 85, sustained extensive burn injuries to his body in the early hours of Christmas Eve in 2018 after his bed in St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar went up in flames.
Mr Murphy, a widower and father of six from Walkinstown, was transferred to St James’s Hospital in Dublin but died later the same day.
