Overview
- Seven children arrived with 29 family members at Dublin Airport on Saturday evening for specialist care.
- Children’s Health Ireland clinicians worked with the World Health Organization to identify cases most likely to benefit from treatment in Ireland.
- The group traveled overland to Jordan in a WHO medical convoy before an Irish team escorted them on a Norwegian-provided flight to Dublin.
- The Irish Red Cross is housing families while CHI and the HSE conduct medical and psychosocial assessments with translation and caseworker support.
- The Government said further paediatric transfers will be considered case by case subject to available capacity, marking Ireland’s third such evacuation.