“They Told Us To Reduce Waiting Lists” CHI Defends Taking Boy Off Scoliosis List Without Informing Parents

“NO MATTER what you do round here you get criticised,” confirmed a source from within Children’s Health Ireland who have again made the news, this time for removing a child with life-threatening scoliosis from a surgery waiting list without notifying the child’s parents.

“You’re getting bogged down in semantics, did we reduce the waiting list by one or not? Not only did we get no thank you but people are bringing up the whole ‘you were given €19mn in funding to reduce the waiting lists but spent on other things instead’ business,” added the source.

Despite the criticism the CHI has noted with some relief that ‘children with spinal curvature so irregular it fills day-to-day life with immense pain being taken off waiting lists and not being notified’ is way behind ‘depiction of Irish family in SPHE book’ in list of things Irish public bothered to give out about.

The HSE has said they will investigate how such a thing could happen but must first figure out where the €19mn they CHI for reducing spinal surgery waiting lists disappeared to. The fresh scandal has also attractive the attention of senior Irish politicians who have said they will not stand for such callous and inhumane treatment of children.

“It’s troubling to learn that not only do lengthy waiting lists remain a problem, and that kid’s in unimaginable pain are being removed from lists without their knowledge but that the person who claimed seven years ago waiting lists would be a maximum of four months not only got to keep his job but got a promotion? Perverse and disgraceful,” Taoiseach Simon Harris said of 2017’s Minister for Health Simon Harris.