Parents repeat request for CHI board to be stood down in 'constructive' meeting with minister

Claire Cahill, of the Scoliosis Advocacy Network, with Amanda Coughlan and Una Keightley, the co-founders of the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Paediatric Advocacy Group, all met with the health minister on Monday. File Picture: Conor Ó Mearáin/Collins Photo Agency

The health minister has been urged to further investigate problems with spinal care at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals by families who met her on Monday.

Parents whose children rely on the hospitals for care and surgery said they had a “constructive” meeting with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill for over an hour.