More patients could face Billy’s fate at hands of hospital

AT least three Irish patients have been refused surgery at the British hospital which is refusing to offer Billy Burke a lung transplant operation, it has emerged.

More patients could face Billy’s fate at hands of hospital

One of them, a man from Swords in Dublin, died recently.

And as many as 30 others could be in a similar situation within months unless the Government acts to ensure donor organs follow Irish transplant patients abroad, wherever they are treated, the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) claims.

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