There’s absolutely little worse than a parent that sees their child in pain – and feels totally useless in being able to realistically do anything about the situation. Currently, for example, there are up to 56 children with spina bifida waiting for corrective surgery.
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Close to 85,000 children are currently waiting on outpatient hospital appointments – that’s out of 897,000 total people are on waiting lists, hoping to been seen in the next few years.
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One of my own daughters was on the front and inner pages of an Irish newspaper for months, during a campaign to get others and her seen to and treated for Scoliosis, a non-curable but controllable condition – if treated in time! In other words, my wife and I can completely understand the stresses of parents and children that are currently in a terrible medical situation.
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Rather than wait years just to be seen, just a few weeks ago we had to pay out over €350+ in total costs, just to get a daughter a first appointment with a specialist who deals with “Turner Syndrome”. If we had to wait for the HSE to treat her – even start to look at her, we would be waiting years – which is far too late with this condition. We will likely have to find thousands of Euro, for further treatment. We are by far, not alone in this sort of – possible deliberate created – predicament.
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The parties of Fianna Fail and especially, Fine Gael, with their self-adopted, non-public consent given, privatisation agenda, are covertly determined to run down public services so that sooner or later more and more are forced into paying towards private companies. The knock-on effect of such an agenda, sees more numbers increasing on waiting lists.
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It’s my own opinion – but until we get a government that doesn’t consist of FF and FG, that doesn’t pursue the current #CETA privatisation agenda being carried out and backed at times by the Green and Labour Party too, then little positive change is going to occur in this single direction – never mind others.