Anger as child dies after heart op cancelled

ANGRY health campaigners called for the Government to act last night after a two-year-old girl died because doctors were forced to cancel her heart surgery

Anger as child dies after heart op cancelled

The two-year-old girl, from Limerick, died early yesterday morning, not long after being sent home by consultants at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin.

She had been scheduled for cardiac surgery on Monday, but as there were no post-operative intensive care paediatric nurses available the elective surgery was rescheduled.

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