OAP died after breaking legs at care home

TRAGIC Mary Melody died in hospital after incident

- BY DAVID RALEIGH

AN elderly woman died after suffering two broken legs at a HSE care home where staff did not call for medical assistance for two days, her family has said.

The family of Mary Melody, 89, who died seven days after an unwitnessed incident at Raheen Community Hospital in Tuamgraney, Co Clare, spoke out and urged people to regularly visit loved ones in care to try to ensure their safety.

Immobile and wheelchair-bound, Ms Melody allegedly fell out of her chair in an unwitnessed incident at the care home on July 3, 2021, and died seven days later at University Hospital Limerick.