Families of children denied ear implants to protest

Families of deaf children blocked from accessing life-changing “international best practice” implants because the HSE will not fund the procedures are to protest at a major hospital today.

Parents will meet with Beaumont chief executive Liam Duffy at 11am to highlight their concerns over the HSE’s failure to provide bilateral cochlear ear implants in Ireland.

They will then travel to HSE offices in Swords, north Dublin, to hand in letters about their children’s cases.