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EPISODE · Apr 30, 2025 · 2 MIN

Hip surgeries on children may have been routine practice, Dail hears

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It's now been claimed that painful hip surgeries carried out on children may have been routine practice. An audit is currently examining the criteria for a specific type of hip surgery in young children carried out between 2021 and 2023.It was previously claimed in recent weeks that thousands of children could have undergone the unnecessary surgeries.Speaking as part of a motion on the issue in the Dail last night, Sinn Fein Donegal TD Pearse Doherty says serious questions need to be answered:

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