‘I wouldn’t let my kids go there’ – Senator rages as CHI bosses admit infertility & cancer risk for wait list kids

The latest scandal to hit CHI comes from an internal report which outlines waiting list mismanagement, serious cultural and governance failures along with bullying

CHILDREN at risk of fertility issues or cancer because they were left waiting too long for surgeries have not been informed by the health service, CHI bosses admitted today.

It comes as politicians grilled Children’s Health Ireland execs over a series of scandals with one Senator telling officials: “If you were running Tayto Park I wouldn’t let my kids go there.”CHI’s new CEO Lucy Nugent started the Health Committee hearing today by making a litany of apologies for the series of scandals that have rocked the organisation.

These include children waiting too long for scoliosis surgeries, non-medical springs being implanted in kids and hundreds of children undergoing hip operations that they may not have needed.

The latest scandal to hit CHI comes from an internal report which outlines waiting list mismanagement, serious cultural and governance failures along with bullying allegations.

Questions were also separately raised about children in need of surgery for undescended testes were left waiting too long which may have impacted their fertility.