Search for Traveller boy with cancer

Title

Search for Traveller boy with cancer

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

17 Aug 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:39

Description

Angus Moorat reports on the case of a young Irish Traveller boy, John Corcoran, who has been taken by his father from Mayday Hospital in Croydon, Surrey, prior to receiving cancer treatment. Police believe the boy has been taken to a faith healer in Ireland. Doctors say he will die within months if he does not receive the surgery he urgently requires. Includes interviews with hospital spokesman, John Hitches(?); Detective Chief Inspector John Beadle.

Contributors

Angus Moorat; John Hitches(?); John Beadle

Keywords

Health services; Police; Ireland; Children (age group); Patients; Cancer; Surrey; Gypsies; Travellers; Croydon; John Corcoran; Mayday Hospital; Irish Travellers

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