Rising numbers of state’s most vulnerable children being treated for morbid obesity

Temple Street's Dr Grace O’Malley said they are seeing more children with obesity who are homeless.

Rising numbers of children in homeless or direct provision accommodation are being treated for morbid obesity.

The nation’s only specialist children’s clinic for treating obesity in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street has seen a worrying rise in the numbers of the vulnerable children over the past two or three years.