DESPITE advances in medicine, over 135 patients attending Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin die every year.

IF LAUGHTER is the best medicine, then children in a Dublin hospital are in good hands with the introduction yesterday of ‘clown doctor’ rounds.

Sick children are being treated with juggling, puppetry, mime and magic with the launch of ‘clown doctors’ rounds at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin today.