Children with diabetes ‘lose out’

Children’s health will suffer with the loss of a quality paediatric diabetes service at University Hospital Limerick, a national campaign group has warned.

Over the last year, children’s diabetes services at the hospital had improved dramatically with the appointment of a full time locum endocrinologist replacing one on ‘half-time’.

The full-time consultant was solely concerned with medical care for more than 250 children with type 1 diabetes and, as a result, there was a fivefold increase in care and support.