Diabetic children left with too few specialists and inadequate service

I AM a parent of a child who has type 1 diabetes and chairperson of the parents support group in Cork.

For some time now we have been fighting to improve the service our children receives from the health authorities but, sadly, children are seen as second-class citizens again.

Type 1 diabetes is not something these children gave themselves by eating too many sweets – it is not preventable and there is no cure.