Surgeon holds Cork child clinic for free

A DUBLIN-based surgeon who travels to Cork to host a monthly clinic for children with severe physical disability has never been paid for the service. The clinic not been acknowledged by the HSE.

Pat Kiely, a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon who works in Tallaght and Crumlin children’s hospitals, travels to Cork in his own time to hold a clinic at Enable Ireland’s Lavanagh Centre in Ballintemple.

Mr Kiely said the clinic was set up in 2009 after it became apparent that children with complex physical disability were in danger of missing out on the timely service they needed to prevent their condition from deteriorating.