'Fear, distrust and embarrassment': why children's healthcare in Ireland is in crisis
Children operated on when there was no need; industrial springs being used instead of approved medical devices; a doctor diverting children to his own private clinic leading to them facing dangerous treatment delays; and a poisonous work culture on the wards – these are some of the issues that have emerged in our children’s hospitals.
And that’s before the not so little matter of the massive budgetary and time overruns that plague the unfinished national children’s hospital.
The body tasked with overseeing the healthcare of the nation’s children is Children’s Health Ireland.
It was founded in…
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