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Since July 2009, my office has received complaints from parents on behalf of their children who have scoliosis and in need of surgery. Over a sustained period of time, we had been alerted to the very long waiting times children were experiencing to access scoliosis spinal surgery.<\/p>\n

I decided in March 2017 to publish a report on the experiences of these children and to share their stories on what it was like to wait for long periods of time for life changing surgery.<\/p>\n

Following the publication of this report \u2018Waiting for Scoliosis Treatment: A Children\u2019s Rights Issue\u2019 and after exhaustive advocacy by parents, and professionals alike there was a commitment by the government to address the systemic issues that were causing these waiting lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2594","library","type-library","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWaiting for Scoliosis Treatment: A Children\u2019s Rights Issue 2018 - Ombudsman for Children<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oco.ie\/ga\/library\/waiting-for-scoliosis-treatment-a-childrens-rights-issue-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waiting for Scoliosis Treatment: A Children\u2019s Rights Issue 2018 - Ombudsman for Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since July 2009, my office has received complaints from parents on behalf of their children who have scoliosis and in need of surgery. 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