Northern Ireland doctors are “patching children up to send them back to the environment that made them sick in the first place” thanks to spiralling poverty, a senior medic warned today.
The damning indictment emerged as campaigners came together at Stormont to call for more action in the face of the cost of living crisis.
Dr Julie-Ann Maney, a consultant in paediatric emergency medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, told the Crushed by the Cost of Living event children’s brains and lungs are not developing properly thanks to poverty induced living conditions.
