Twenty Cork children have been waiting longer than four months for their first scoliosis appointment, but Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has said it cannot reveal how many are awaiting actual surgery, due to “patient confidentiality”, despite having released this information previously.
The 20 children suspected of having scoliosis and on the orthopaedic outpatient waiting list at the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital have been waiting longer than four months to be seen.
“For any surgical intervention, these patients are referred to CHI Dublin,” the HSE has said.
When local Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould asked, via a parliamentary question, for the number of Cork-based children on CHI’s list who have been awaiting scoliosis surgery for longer than four months, CHI said that they were “unable to…