SEPSIS TOT 10MTH WAIT TO GET TO HOSPITAL
Appointment nightmare for tot who suffers from constant pain
THE parents of a seriously ill baby girl who faces a 10-month wait for a hospital appointment have hit out at the health care system.
Jeanie May Moylan was born with enlarged kidneys and a heart condition and was rushed from the maternity ward to hospital with sepsis just hours after she was born.
The eleven-month-old struggles when passing urine and parents John Moylan and Paula Penrose said she is in constant pain.
The couple say they will have to borrow money to pay for specialist private medical care after waiting 10 months to be seen. John, from Co Offaly, spoke of his anguish at seeing his daughter “in pain every day”. The dad revealed they first tried to make an appointment in January. He told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “We are very disappointed with the health care service. “She is in pain going to the toilet for the past 10 months, but we have not received proper care. “We have been trying to get her into Crumlin hospital and only last week we w e r e told there will be an appointment – in December. “That’s not good enough, we can’t continue like this. “It’s not fair on our daughter so we will borrow the money. We don’t know how much it’ll cost, it could be hundreds, it could be thousands, but it can’t continue.”
John said his daughter was rushed to Crumlin children’s hospital within hours of her delivery at Portlaoise hospital last year.
He said: “She was born and taken away from her mother Paula. A nurse asked a doctor to check for sepsis and yes, she had it.
“She was taken to Crumlin by ambulance, and they wouldn’t take Paula with her in the ambulance.
“They said she might haemorrhage something could happen and they will have to stop the ambulance. They said it was too risky. So the baby travelled with no parent to Dublin.”
Jeanie May is on antibiotics to keep down the inflammation on her kidneys. John, who is on disability allowance, said: “She’s just in pain. The antibiotics help with that, but really, she should be in the care of a centre of excellence like Crumlin.
“We cannot seem to get an appointment.
“We have to get this done for her as it’s just awful watching her being unwell.
“We really are hugely disappointed with how she has been let down.”
Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin paediatric hospital has been contacted for comment.
It’s just awful watching her being unwell JOHN MOYLAN ON HIS DAUGHTER’S ORDEAL