THE mother of a girl who stops breathing up to 50 times a night has blasted a hospital for cancelling an operation three times.

Joanne Monaghan is furious that five-year-old daughter Kelsey’s op to have her tonsils out to help with her sleep apnoea has been cancelled three time since January.

Kelsey - who also suffers from haemotomas, severe asthma, learning difficulties, severe anaemia, limited eyesight and poor coordination and communication skills - had first been scheduled for the op at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital in January.

However when mum Joanne Monaghan, 29, of Cambrai Crescent, Winton, arrived at the hospital they cancelled the operation as Kelsey was suffering from a bad chest.

It was rearranged for February but again when they arrived they were told it couldn’t go ahead as staff had lost the results of a sleep study.

In May they went back to the hospital but were told there were no beds in the Intensive Care Unit where Kelsey would have to stay following the op as her sleep apnoea, which causes her to stop breathing for a few seconds, is so severe.

Joanne says following the cancellation in May her surgeon promised his secretary would call within a couple of days to make another appointment but never did.

Joanne, who has two other children Courtney, eight, and Tyler, three, said: "I thought it was unfair that I had to starve her all day in preparation for the operation and it didn’t even happen.

"The surgeon said his secretary would call me and make another appointment to get it done at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital because I was sick of being messed about at Booth Hall, now both those hospitals have closed.

"It is very important for her tonsils to come out as they think it will increase her breathing at night.

"I’m up constantly during the night to check on her.

"How they have treated my daughter is unfair, it sounds like a simple operation but it’s quite severe apnoea so it could have a big effect."

Afer the Advertiser contacted the hospital Joanne received a text offering her another appointment next week.

A spokesman from Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "We will investigate the reasons as to why this has occurred and would ask the family to contact us to make the necessary arrangements to ensure Kelsey receives the appropriate treatment."