CHILDREN suffering from cataracts and tumours on their eyes – one just six weeks old – could lose their sight as a direct result of cutbacks at the country’s leading paediatric hospital.

THE head of a children’s hospital has apologised to a mother who was only given a pillow and blanket when she spent the night by her sick child’s bedside.

A MAJOR children’s hospital risks ending up being nothing more than a “glorified health centre”, according to TD Tony Gregory.