Treatment abroad for kids with scoliosis

Four hospitals in Britain, Germany and France have been engaged by the HSE to treat children with scoliosis, it has emerged.

So far this year 272 scoliosis operations have been carried out in public hospitals in Ireland and a specialist orthopaedic hospital in London.

HSE director general, Tony O’Brien, told the Oireachtas joint committee on health that it had secured additional capacity in three private hospitals overseas.