Children ‘at risk’ at paediatric hospital because of waiting times for surgery

OUR worst fears about cutbacks at the state’s largest paediatric hospital putting children at risk are coming true, a patients’ campaign group has said.

A consultant paediatric cardiologist at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, has warned that children were at risk because of increasing waiting times for cardiac surgery.

Dr Paul Oslizlok, who is also president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, said heart operations were being cancelled on a weekly basis because of a lack of intensive care beds.