Four operations cancelled since Róisín’s death

FOUR more operations have been cancelled at Crumlin children’s hospital since the death of a baby whose heart surgery was cancelled last week.

Two-year-old Róisín Ruddle, from Ballingarry, Co Limerick, died in her parents’ arms after being sent home from Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, when her operation for a heart defect was cancelled at short notice.

Yesterday, a spokeswoman for the hospital confirmed that four operations had not gone ahead in the past week.