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Wed 09 Sep 2009Waiting times put children at risk, warns top surgeon
WAITING TIMES for cardiac surgery at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, are now posing a risk to children, a consultant paediatric cardiologist there said yesterday.
Dr Paul Oslizlok, who is also president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, said a shortage of intensive care beds meant children’s heart operations were now being cancelled on a weekly basis. “It’s getting to crisis point,” he said. Dr Oslizlok said waiting times had been brought down to below three months but were now once again “getting up to six months” which he said “for many children is simply too long”.
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