Monday, June 07, 2010
Laurel County Woman Dies After Giving Birth
KENTUCKY....
Thirty year old Karin Rush Blankenship, a Laurel County woman who worked as a nurse at St. Joseph-London and was 32 weeks pregnant, died of bacterial meningitis Sunday at the University of Kentucky Hospital. Doctors at St. Joseph-London performed an emergency C-section in which she gave birth to a boy and a girl who were sent to University of Kentucky Hospital by helicopter Saturday. Later Saturday Blankenship was transferred to UK Hospital where she died the following day.
Thirty year old Karin Rush Blankenship, a Laurel County woman who worked as a nurse at St. Joseph-London and was 32 weeks pregnant, died of bacterial meningitis Sunday at the University of Kentucky Hospital. Doctors at St. Joseph-London performed an emergency C-section in which she gave birth to a boy and a girl who were sent to University of Kentucky Hospital by helicopter Saturday. Later Saturday Blankenship was transferred to UK Hospital where she died the following day.
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