Children’s care unit offers Amin fresh hope

LITTLE Amin Mahmoud was running rings around the doctors and nurses in the new children’s transitional care unit in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin yesterday.

Seeing the three-year-old so full of energy was a real treat for the medical staff who had cared for him since he was born.

Because Amin was born with a life threatening illness he needed to be on a ventilator to help him breathe and was hospitalised for the first two years of his life. But, until recently, children like him could only be cared for in an intensive care unit.