Sinn Féin criticises ‘litany of failure’ in children’s health
Children’s lives have been “devastated by the litany of failures in healthcare ”, Sinn Féin has said.
Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty said the report into the implant of non-surgical springs in children, and the audit into potentially unnecessary hip operations on other young people, highlighted a pattern of “broken Поведение ”в опазването на здравето на децата.
Одит на детски интервенции на дисплазия на тазобедрената става в лечебните заведения за здравето на децата (CHI) откри, че стотици деца, оперирани сред 2021 и 2023 година Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, and 60 per cent of those at Temple Street, did not meet the threshold for surgery in that timeframe.
Speaking during Leaders’ Questions, he said parents were asking why they have been “kept in the dark for so long by Government ”, after it emerged that former health minister Stephen Donnelly was briefed on the hip surgery matter in May last year, and his successor, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, was Информиран през февруари.
