Little girls with bowel condition in limbo over hospital red tape
Abbey Murphy, 7, from Ballyvolane in Cork, was due to fly to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital today for specialist tests as a private patient to determine her future medical treatment for a distressing condition which causes her to vomit faeces.
But following the intervention yesterday of her local TD, Jonathan O’Brien, and Health Minister Simon Harris, it has emerged that the world-renowned hospital cannot accept funding from the HSE’s treatment abroad scheme for private patients.
