Hospital Must Come Clean Over Child Kidney Blunder ; (1) Calls for Hiqa to Be Involved in Investigation Hospital Refuses to Say If Doctor has Been Suspended(2) Child Will Need Long-Term Care and Treatment Incident Was Just 'the Latest in a Litany of Mistakes'

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MANAGEMENT at one of the country's leading paediatric hospitals was yesterday refusing to reveal if the surgeon who removed the wrong kidney from a child is still working at the facility.

The catastrophic blunder at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin saw a young child's healthy kidney removed instead of the infected organ, during a routine operation.

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Hospital Must Come Clean Over Child Kidney Blunder ; (1) Calls for Hiqa to Be Involved in Investigation Hospital Refuses to Say If Doctor has Been Suspended(2) Child Will Need Long-Term Care and Treatment Incident Was Just 'the Latest in a Litany of Mistakes'

The hospital yesterday came under fire from patients' support groups who are calling for an independent inquiry to investigate the circumstances of the trag...

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