The inquest into the death of a mother who contracted herpes shortly after the birth of her son is set to go ahead nearly five years later. Kim Sampson was 29 when she died in May 2018, shortly after the birth of her baby son at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate, Kent.
Miss Sampson, from Whitstable, also had a daughter and her family are desperate for answers after initially being told there would not be an inquest at all. Six weeks after Miss Sampson’s death, 32-year-old nursery nurse Samantha Mulcahy also died by an infection caused by the same virus at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford – run by the same trust, East Kent Hospitals, as QEQM.
Both women had undergone a Caesarean and at the end of 2021 it was decided that a full inquest into their deaths would be held. A pre-inquest review hearing was told the same surgeon and midwife were involved in both Miss Sampson and Mrs Mulcahy’s care.
