Now is time to ‘make it happen’

Planning approval for the new children’s hospital is expected to boost medical recruitment, Children’s Hospital Group Chief Executive Eilísh Hardiman tells Gary Culliton, with 17 applicants recently for two permanent paediatrician posts in Temple Street Last week, on Thursday April 28, the father of a sick child at Crumlin Hospital was asleep in his car in the hospital car park, with a two-year old child on a cushion in the back seat. Rural families, in particular, whose children have life-threatening conditions, have suffered hugely due to delays in building the new children’s hospital. Many groups that represent children have supported…