Two new mums tragically died of herpes which they contracted after giving birth just six weeks apart at the same NHS Foundation Trust. Both women underwent caesarean sections at hospitals run by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and were attended to by the same surgeon and midwife
An inquest into their deaths is due to take place next week on February 27, the Mirror reports. Kim Sampson was just 29-years-old when she developed a serious infection caused by the virus following the birth of her baby boy at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent.
Just six weeks after her death, Samantha Mulcahy, 32 contracted the same virus after undergoing a caesarean. Kent's coroner service originally decided not to hold an inquest into their deaths but made a U-turn after discovering the same staff were involved in both cases.
