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Repro Free: 03/09/2014
Emily Fitzsimons (7) from Kildare, Lara Bayliss (3) from Bray Co Wicklow and Sean Nelson (6) from Sallins Co Kildare are pictured at the launch of the Temple Street national Spina Bifida services research report. This report shows the gross under-resourcing of services for children with Spina Bifida both in Temple Street and across the country. These children have extremely complex needs but the research showed that 54% of them do not have access to a multidisciplinary team (MDT) clinic despite the fact that 69% of children with SB over three years use a wheelchair, 93% of them over five years require continence support and 64% of them have a VP shunt to manage hydrocephalus. Picture Andres Poveda
