A young Carlow girl who was removed from a scoliosis waiting list after four years has been forced to travel to the US for urgent surgery.
Seven-year-old Roxanne Kelly is one of a group of children who were under the care of a consultant here, who is now under investigation.
New figures show 525 scoliosis surgeries on children were cancelled between 2022 and 2025.
Roxanne had previously travelled to Florida, where she had multiple surgeries on a rare condition called arthrogryposis (pr: Ar-throw-cry-poe-sis), because there wasn’t anything doctors could do for her here.
Her mother, Mairin says they’ve been forced to set up a fundraiser to get her back to Florida for more urgent surgery; “Went into a brand new surgeon and it’s really the same story again, he doesn’t want to put her on the surgical wait list here in Ireland because she’s so complex that he feels she’s not ready for surgery here but she is ready for surgery in the United States but because she’s not on the surgical wait list she can’t get any funding from the HSE to go abroad so we’re taking it into our own hands again”.
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