CHI head 'deeply and unreservedly sorry' for non-medical devices used in children's spinal surgeries

It has also emerged many hundreds of children may have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries at children’s hospitals over the past five years. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

The head of Children’s Health Ireland says the organisation is “deeply and unreservedly sorry” for some children having had non-medical devices inserted into their bodies during spinal surgery.

Lucy Stewart, the recently-appointed chief executive of CHI, is to tell the Dail’s Public Accounts Committee “what happened should not have happened and children should have been protected from harm”.