MRI unit a boost for very ill children

VERY ill newborn babies are doing better since the new children’s MRI unit opened at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin 10 months ago.

The €7 million unit, officially opened yesterday by Health Minister Mary Harney, has already been used in the treatment of around 1,200 children from all over Ireland.

The State-funded facility has ended the unsatisfactory practice of transporting sick children and staff from the Children’s Hospital across the city for MRI scans in other hospitals.