Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Ike Okafor:

We found that within a group of surgeons at Temple Street and Cappagh, they had a philosophy that if they intervened earlier, they would prevent children when they were older or were young adults from having osteoarthritis and needing hip replacements. It was a philosophy they firmly believed.

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