The only reason I can walk today is the great work in Crumlin when I was a child. This was a terrible accident and should never have happened, but don’t let it subtract from the great work they do in outdated facilities on an insufficient budget.

Martin corbally the surgeon who did the operation
Saved my sons life by removing a whilms tumour

In fairness to Crumlin Children’s hospital, the care they provide is fantastic. They took amazing care of my daughter when she had renal problems at 6 months old. I can’t imagine how such a thing happened but they should be commend for the good work they do. It must be awful for the family involved though.

My sister wouldn’t be alive today without crumlin hospital’s fast efficient skilled doctors and staff, the parents of that child no doubt are feeling the opposite and I dont blame them the only thing you can ask for is this doesn’t happen again and mistakes are learned

I know they do brilliant work, I was a patient there with serious illness many years ago, and now I work in a hospital, and it can be stressful and everyone does their best….but if I were that child’s parent, I wouldn’t be in the least bit impressed!

my son spent 2 years there in st johns ward, conditions at the time were not great, i.e.,only 2 single rooms for extremely ill children, but he is still alive with us today against all the odds, thanks to the staff and doctors and the cleaner in particular…… place i hope to never stand in again but they are marvelous people working with so little and seem to survive on donations,

Ah yeah I know folks, as said was a patient there and these people do great work and they are only human…but from the parents side…

I’m glad to see theres more positive than negative remarks .. crumlin is an amazing hospital and my son was in the heart unit for only s week thank god but they were sooo thorough and the babies they saved and the stories I heard were all very positive .. I do feel for the little girl and her family and the family of the healthy kidney case …on the scale of things the amount of patients they have ti deal with under pressure and with long hrs its amazing there aren’t more mistakes tbh

Isn’t this the same doctor that removed a healthy kidney by mistake a couple o years ago instead of the diseased one? Yes, iv just googled that, same name : ( sad its happened to another family….health service workers do an amazing job under fierce pressure and iv a lot of respect for them but this is a disgrace

I guess we would need to walk a mile in anyone’s shoes to know their pain but what happened here it totally unacceptable ! Having experience off hospital I can say that many “great surgeons” (but not all !) are impossible to work with and are total bullies to the staff !

Mistakes happen. That’s life.

Just a classical of demonstration of the fact that incompetence is everywhere, Doctors are human and can and do make mistakes just as often as most other professionals, hence the reason one should always remain vigilant in regard to the health care and advice you might receive from a Doctor or surgeon or some other health professional.

If my mechanic treated my motor-car in such bumbling manner, I would be outraged! Or the Vet did likewise to my old dog!
Is human life, health and welfare of so little consequence that such horrific circumstances are allowed to occur? And recur?
Everyone going to hospital in this State should have the reason for their operation-surgery, and the exact location of it, either tatooed or marked in indelible ink. This might make these little medical gods sit up and realise they are only human – some less human than others!!
I for one am sick of all the promises and PR blabbing how changes have been made….checks and balances have been introduced…. systems failures cannot happen again…. ad nauseum. As the man said: I DON’T BELIEVE IT!!
Why? Because incompetence happens again and again and again….. and will continue to do so.
No wonder all our high and mighty ‘nobility’ (including our politicians) when they need medical treatment or surgery, head fast for the Mayo Clinic or some such excellent institution – and leave our so-called ‘centres of excellence’ far behind!! I suppose these woe-begone places are for us little people of no-account.

And, on an extended rant- would someone please get rid of that awful fraudulent term ‘centre of excellence?’ Do it as speedily as was as was done to the term ‘governing from a bunker’ when politicians realised that the IRA were doing just that. And also the idiotic phrase ‘thinking outside of the box’ which was the green light for light-touch and no regulation during the boom! Every hod-carrier and small-town chancer suddenly thought they were property developers, auctioneers, bankers and geniuses. All on borrowed money! Wannabe richest men and women in Ireland? We see what happened to them. And we are paying for their treachery.

Crumlin is clearly a poorly run, badly managed hospital. Not my view but that of the enquiry.

“the inquiry had heard significant evidence of systems failures and errors in surgical procedures at Crumlin.
Prof Bury said the hospital had an inadequate surgical booking and coding system.
He said a correct site of surgery policy was not implemented and there was an issue with clinical leadership.”

The litany of excuses being posted here is shameful!