Girl in constant pain as ‘urgent’ surgery delayed

THE mother of a teenager awaiting surgery for a spine deformation is considering legal action against the HSE as she claims a proposed screening programme at her daughter’s school never went ahead.

Girl in constant pain as ‘urgent’ surgery delayed

Emma Lacey, 17, was diagnosed with scoliosis last year, but her mother Nuala alleges screening which was meant to take place at her school would have picked it up years earlier and prevented the need for an operation.

“If this condition had been diagnosed at that early stage, we may not now be in the position of firstly having to endure a very severe operation.

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