HSE agrees to arrange prosthesis for waiting teen

Teenager Ronan Kiely, who has been waiting for an artificial leg since last November, has been told he will shortly get a replacement.

His mother, Margaret, from Boherbue, Co Cork, said she received an email from the HSE yesterday stating the 14-year-old’s prosthetic had finally been sanctioned.

It comes as a large number of amputees are set to protest outside HSE offices in Cork this Friday over “unacceptable waiting lists” for prosthetic limbs.