Hospital delay affects 4,000 sick Cavan children

A leading paediatrician in Cavan has condemned the decision of An Bord Pleanála last week to refuse planning permission for the new National Children's Hospital on the Mater site. Dr Alan Finan, consultant paediatrician at Cavan General Hospital, told The Anglo-Celt this week that any further delays in building a national paediatric hospital will have consequences for the quality of care for sick children in Ireland. He revealed that there are about 4,000 children (in-patients) from Cavan accessing the three children's hospitals in Dublin every year between Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street with multiples more accessing the outpatients' departments of those hospitals. For full story and other reaction, see this week's Anglo-Celt.