"Waiting to find out if my son is blind" - desperate mum tells @reporterlisa

May 26, 2014, 09:21 AM

Here on the Nolan show we brought you the story of children and babies in the Belfast Trust area waiting up to six months for urgent MRI scans.

Part of the problem is that the Royal is the only specialist children's hospital in the UK without its own scanner.

And despite the money being there to build it, the scanner won't be in place until 2015.

When Amy Donaldson's 22 week old son Ben was 7 weeks old he contracted bronchitis and his eyes began to roll. After a series of tests she was told the only way to confirm or rule out blindness was an MRI scan. But Amy's been telling our reporter Lisa McAlister that could take up to a year