The seriously ill infant’s move to Belfast from Dublin will be raised with Health Department at Stormont after staff in Royal expressed concerns during inquest
The drive from Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, Dublin, to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in west Belfast takes an estimated two hours
Yesterday at 22:35
A coroner is to write to Stormont’s Health Department over the transfer of a seriously ill baby from Dublin to Belfast following a heart operation.
Frankee-Ann Barbara McConville, known as Frankee, was born on July 5, 2018. She died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children on February 21, 2019.
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