Ilona Kazik (Image: Irwin Mitchell/SWNS)

A first-time mum died from a bleed on the brain just days after giving birth following "inadequate care" by medics who sent her home twice from hospital, a coroner has ruled. Ilona Kazik, 32, suffered a major obstetric bleed just hours after her first child Antony was born via a planned c-section at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.

An inquest heard she was sent home from hospital twice in the 24 hours before giving birth and medics found she had high blood pressure as well as a low platelet count. But neither issue was recorded or passed on and she was given a drug which increased her blood pressure even further because staff believed she was "low risk".

Despite medication, Ilona's condition worsened and hours after the delivery, she co

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