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Nadeem Badshah

SHOCKING: New mothers who died with herpes should have been treated sooner says coroner - What They Never Told You

Separate images of Kimberley Sampson and Samantha Mulcahy.
The families of Kim Sampson, left, and Samantha Mulcahy have been waiting five years to find out how they came to be infected with the virus. Photograph: Facebook

A coroner has criticised an NHS trust over the deaths of two new mothers with herpes.

Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulcahy, 32, died in 2018 after having caesarean sections six weeks apart by the same surgeon at hospitals in Kent.

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