A family whose teenage daughter was unable to travel to London for a liver transplant last month, this due to an apparent breakdown in communication among health chiefs, remains unconvinced that there will not be a repeat of failures which forced the missing of the surgery.
Meadhbh McGivern, 14, was offered the operation in King's College, London on July 2, but four hours later, plans for the life-changing surgery had to be called off due to delays in securing a flight.
The watchdog group, the Health Information and Quality Authority, this week found that the County Leitrim teenager missed the journey because of a "lack of leadership and an unreliable system for arranging rapid air ambulance transport."
A private air ambulance company is on standby to take Meadhbh to London in the event a second donor is found and should state agencies not come through with a second attempt to secure a flight.
Meadhbh's father, Joe McGivern, said he is in shock at the breakdown in communications despite 76 phone calls between relevant agencies on the night of July 2.
"We did not think that what happened on the night could have got any more shocking but this puts the tin hat on it," he said. Everybody knew what to do, but they just ran around in circles. It's very easy to point the finger of blame, but they did their best and we will have to accept that. The bottom line is that Meadhbh is still waiting. There's no point in getting angry, it will only eat us up."
