Administration adding to the suffering of some in health system

Aimee Foley has lived her life ‘in the loop of medicine’, and is determined the HSE will fund a visit to a specialist in London for a formal diagnoses.

AS A CHILD, Aimee Foley had a couple of brushes with illness that should have raised a few eyebrows.

At age nine, she developed a polyp, a small growth on her bowel. At age 12, she developed a femoral hernia, rare in children her age. Surgery to repair the hernia should have taken 45 minutes. She was on the operating table for two and a half hours. Recovery was unusually slow.