Children\u2019s Health Ireland<\/a> through her mother, Caroline Feeney, of Castletown, Leixlip, Co Kildare. Children\u2019s Health Ireland, which has its head office at Herberton, St James\u2019s Walk, Rialto, Dublin 8, is responsible for the control and management of emergency treatment for children under 15 at Crumlin hospital, Co Dublin. <\/p>\nFinucane told the court that in August 2022, the girl suffered a laceration above her left eye after hitting her head on a wooden table in the family home. Her mother, who is a registered paediatric nurse, applied steri-strips to stem the bleeding before bringing her to the emergency department of Crumlin hospital. <\/p>\n
Counsel told the court a decision had been made to glue the laceration and during the procedure excessive glue had been used, resulting in glue dripping into the patient\u2019s eye. It led to an irrigation treatment with three litres of fluid to remove what was described as \u201ccopious glue use\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe irrigation procedure was an extremely distressing event,\u201d Finucane said.<\/p>\n
The judge heard that Saoirse Feeney\u2019s left eye was glued shut and a real concern emerged that her eyesight could be impaired. She was taken to Temple Street children\u2019s hospital for the separation of her eyelids.<\/p>\n
A large amount of glue remained struck to the child\u2019s eyebrows for some time, and some of her bottom eyelashes fell out as they became matted together. The child had felt very self-conscious as she attended school for the first time nine days after the treatment. Some of her eyelashes turned inwards, which compounded her distress.<\/p>\n
Finucane said Children\u2019s Health Ireland made a settlement offer of \u20ac15,000 compensation to Saoirse Feeney, and counsel recommended acceptance of it to the court.<\/p>\n
The judge said it was very lucky that there had been no permanent injury to the child\u2019s eye, and approved the settlement offer, which, she said, was at the top of recommended compensation for transient eye injury. <\/p>\n
In a brief conversation with the judge, Saoirse Feeney said she now had no memory whatsoever of her experiences at the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has been told that a hospital doctor accidentally glued a four-year-old child\u2019s eyelids together while closing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30791,61,60,43,127509],"class_list":["post-572310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-children-s-health-ireland-chi","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-temple-street-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}