Temple street hospital using unauthorised devices

That is only in Temple street and we are talking about crumlin where most teenagers are done. The backlog has being there for years due to children not being seen in time and awaiting list gets longer and children get older and need longer procedures from 8 to 9 hours on the operating table.

The timeline on this is interesting.

Correct me if im wrong.

1.The ditch broke the story (kudos to them)

2.The HSE / government quickly announced a review of the surgeries as if they never knew about it before.

3.The ‘main stream’ media start reporting on the story. Rte do a tv show on it etc etc.

Im not one for tin hat stuff, but while the ditch appear to have made a habit of reporting stories that highlight the corruption and incompetence of the government and government members Its a clear conflict of interest for RTE to do the same while also continually looking for financial handouts, but as soon as the story is out there they jump aboard

I’m not saying you’re completely wrong and I’m not defending any of the accusations but the hospital and HSE had conducted at least one review and another was underway before the Ditch article was published

According to who?

Is this enough for you?

I stand by exactly what I said and I'll quote it here again:

"Why oh why do we have hundreds of disappointed Irish CAO applicants yearly for Medicine and at the same time import foreign doctors with dubious qualifications? The stupidity of this country astounds me."

The investigation has been underway for months. Fair. I'm not one for big conspiracy theories.

But only now that it's public, is the investigation being outsourced to a UK group to come in and look at it.

This surgeon was allowed to continue performing surgeries after concerns were first raised.

I'll be interested to see how many (if any-he may have reverted to professional methods) dodgy surgeries continued after concerns were first raised.

Also interested on each of the multiple surgeries what other medical staff noticed something or were part of it. Or can they claim complete ignorance on the equipment used in the surgeries they're present for?

Vast majority of HSE staff are professional. But I'm completely against this in house business and a concern almost for reputational damage first before all else.

Surgeon, and any accomplices should be dealt with and accountable. Surgeon obviously primarily-lose job&criminal proceedings. But any accomplices should also be held to account.

Saying nothing while this is going on can't be put down to a mistake or "it's not their fault". Those people are also partly responsible and failing to act is an act in itself.

The review with some Uk based doctor has been announced since, thats what i was referring to.

The hospital and the HSE

I think the point is RTE should have been able to break this story sooner then after the ditch runs it. Same goes for virgin media - how can an operation like the ditch find this stuff out? - clearly it was being spoken about enough for them to get wind of it and do some digging.

So is this butcher still working on children?

did I miss hear today he is still operating until the investigation is finished