Hip surgery – scandal children parents fear permanent damage – meaning féin

Parents of children, whose hips unnecessarily feared, fear that they claimed that Sinn Féin was being done.

The Ministry of Health has ordered an investigation into the operations of hip dysplasia for children that were not necessary medically.

The operation is carried out if the ball and base connection is not properly on the spot.

It is feared that hundreds of children – although they did not need the procedures – were operated, and Féin Health spokesman David Cullinane said that his party had been flooded with e -mails by concerned parents.

He added that a clinician had also contacted to consider that some of the children could have been caused.

“Because to be pretty honest about it, this procedure cuts this process in the bones of a child,” said Deputy Cullinane The Pat Kenny Show.

“So if you have a difficult procedure that cuts into a child's bones, this can obviously cause permanent damage.”

Deputy Cullinane added that some parents said that their child suffered from complications after the procedure.

“You have to deal with complications for your children and ask yourself whether it is due to the procedure that was carried out unnecessarily?” he said

The TD Waterford added that other parents of children who did not have the procedure were in contact.

“We were contacted by dozens of parents over the number of weeks and months when this story broke for the first time,” he said.

“We know that many of these parents are the parents of children who were looking for a second opinion and actually did not carry out the osteotomies for their children.

“When they complied with a second opinion, private consultants in this state – but sometimes outside the state – were informed that their children had no condition at all.”

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The deputy Cullinane described this as “very serious red flag” and said that parents were “worried”.

“We know that there are other reviews that continued in Chi and clinical practice from at least one consultant – which is still going,” he said.

“We had the HIQA report to use non -medical sources that were published a few weeks ago.

“So we have all this scandals in the background and then we have this problem that parents simply do not have the answers.

“And if parents have no answers, this leads to a break in trust and I think this is the worst place where we can be in relation to the health care of the children.”

Deputy Cullinane said that the government had to be transparent with the families of affected children.

“With the information you have to be clear and in advance as well as to calm the parents primarily,” he said.

“But also to a point where this audit not only gave the minister, but also published and then very clear measures can be taken.”

A spokesman for the Minister of Health Jennifer Carroll Macneill told Newstalk That she will not comment until she receives the full report in the problem.

They added that she was happy to have a full debate in Dáil Éireann when the report was issued.

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