Minister Must Protect Children’s Heart Surgery in Northern Ireland
25 April 2013
TUV Leader Jim Allister has called on the Health Minister to roundly reject the recommendation from the Health and Social Care Board that children's heart surgery provision should be lost to Belfast and transferred to Dublin."This would be a most retrograde step for the Northern Ireland children now, and in the future, relying on this life-saving service. Belfast must continue to provide the necessary core service. There is no justification for its removal. It seems the urge by some for an all-Ireland context for everything knows no bounds, even when it disadvantages and inconveniences local families. It is now up to the Minister to repudiate this proposal."
