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Ms McNiffe said Jack suffers from a rare auto-inflammatory disease and chronic arthritis.
“He is under the care of paediatric rheumatology in Crumlin Children’s Hospital since he was one year of age,” she said.
“He is under 13 medical teams in total as he has complex medical issues – sometimes more depending what’s going on at the time. He requires 24-hour care.
“He is a wheelchair user, he is tube fed around the clock and he is non-verbal. He has a severe intellectual disability. He has a heart condition which requires further open heart surgery, he has chronic lung disease which means he has frequent chest infections.