Parents: Why did delay cost Maedhbh her transplant?

THE parents of a schoolgirl waiting for a liver transplant are seeking an explanation after their daughter’s life- changing operation was cancelled when emergency services took too long to get her to hospital.

Maedhbh McGivern, 14, was standing in an aircraft hangar in Sligo, ready to board a helicopter to England, when the flight was called off.

Doctors at Kings Cross Hospital in London had to break the news by phone that the efforts to get Maedhbh a flight had taken so long, the donor liver couldn’t wait.