Two-year-old Charlotte suffers from a rare heart defect and the surgery was to remove extra tissue growing below a heart valve that is restricting blood flow.
Charlotte, who has Down’s Syndrome and spent the first eight months of her life in hospital, underwent heart surgery at three-months-old to correct a congenital heart defect, Eoghan told the Irish Independent.
"This is not something that I wish to complain about at all. If an emergency surgery for a child needs to happen, we were quite happy to stand aside. We were one of those emergency situations at one time," he explained.
Unfortunately, this is the second time the family have had to endure a cancellation – the first time was due to “clinical reasons” - and not surprisingly they are extremely annoyed.
"This week’s postponement was due to the operating theatres being closed for budgetary reasons, this in itself whilst disappointing would be acceptable if it was not for the fact that we were allowed to make all our arrangements and travel up to Dublin in preparation for Charlotte's surgery the day before," the father informed the publication.
“All of the arrangements we made and favours we asked for will have to be made and asked for again."
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin apologised to the family, stating that there was "an administrative error where a patient was admitted on the wrong day for their surgery on Monday, 7th September, 2015."
