Six eye operations on girl's congenital squint left her with 'a profound cosmetic issue', court told

Counsel said between the ages of two and seven years of age the little girl had six surgeries which their side would say 'were either wrong or should not have taken place at all'

The girl, who is now a teenager, on Thursday settled a High court action against the HSE for €120,000 over her treatment at University Hospital Waterford for a congenital squint in one of her eyes.

A little girl had six eye surgeries for a congenital squint which, it is claimed, should not have taken place and she ended up with a profound and permanent cosmetic issue, the High Court has heard.

At one stage the little girl who had the surgery at University Hospital Waterford for a downward looking eye was allegedly overcorrected and her eye then looked upward.