A five-year-old girl is one of more than 1,000 children from NI to have a heart operation in the Republic.
The parents of a five-year-old County Antrim girl who had heart surgery cancelled several times within a few weeks have praised a Dublin hospital for saving her life.Isobel Reynolds from Glengormley had her operation at the all-Ireland children's heart centre in Crumlin in April.
Isobel had heart surgery after investigations into a heart murmur a year ago showed she had two holes in her heart and a faulty valve.Isobel's parents Paul and Gemma said her numerous surgery cancellations were hard to deal with"You build yourself up, you build Isobel up to go down, psych yourself up for this major surgery that is going to happen to your child and last minute it's cancelled and then you have to go home and try to get back to normal.
"It would have been great if it had been in the Royal in Belfast, but I understand that they're not doing enough surgery up here to warrant it and I would rather go down to Dublin than have to fly over to England and be cancelled and having to come back again.Family handoutThe Reynolds say Isobel is doing really well after surgery."She's a lively wee girl now, but she was pretty sick up until she had her surgery.
While all patients born on the island of Ireland should now have their cardiac surgery completed in CHI, Belfast Trust said "there remains a cohort of children who continue to receive treatment in GB".
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