Teddy's transplant: Cork family facing €60k medical bills after baby's transplant abroad

'Crumlin Hospital's advice to us was to take Teddy home and have palliative care and let him pass away in three months, four months, five months'
Teddy's transplant: Cork family facing €60k medical bills after baby's transplant abroad

Jamie embraces his son just minutes before they both went in for surgery.

A Cork family is appealing for help with €60,000 in medical bills from a Belgian hospital after their baby son's lifesaving liver transplant in Belgium. 

18-month-old Teddy Good was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect in utero, so his parents expected he would have some heart problems, but a series of medical complications involving his liver have left them €60,000 in debt to a Belgian hospital after they availed of the Treatment Abroad Scheme. 

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