Irish Examiner View: Surgery delays for children with spinal issues simply not good enough

This is yet another kick in the teeth from a health system many families widely regard as having failed them. 

A “temporary pause” has been imposed on scoliosis operations for children which were scheduled to take place over the next three weeks at Temple Street Hospital in Dublin. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

At this moment, there are 32 children with scoliosis awaiting surgery at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin. 

In the next three weeks a number of those children were anticipating vital, yet complex, spinal surgery. Those operations have been cancelled for three weeks, creating grave anxiety among those awaiting the procedures and their parents.