Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Peadar Tóibín - PQ 35811-26
Deputy Tóibín asked about the number of children that required repeat surgery due to retained surgical items left in their bodies. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: May 2026
Updated: July 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that required repeat surgery due to retained surgical items left in their bodies, for each of the last ten years; and to detail the categories of items retained in the children’s bodies.
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