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Thu 10 Oct 2008Parents' concerns over child's surgery 'not addressed'
The family of a child who had a healthy kidney removed in error at Our Lady's Hospital for Children Crumlin said today they had raised concerns about their child's surgery "on a number of occasions" up to the operation and that these concerns were not addressed.
The Crumlin hospital commissioned an independent inquiry in April after it admitted “a significant and regrettable medical error” in removing the child’s healthy kidney, instead of the diseased one.
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