Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-30
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

It is taking more than a year for people to access the long Covid clinic at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin. Despite a growing body of research evidence indicating that many patients with long Covid have neurological issues, the HSE has recruited only one neurologist for long Covid patients throughout the country. The only other clinic managing patients with neurological issues, based in the Mater hospital, is set to close at the end of next month due to the HSE's failure to even respond to the business case submitted to it last July. This clinic has already treated some 1,500 people this year. I ask the Taoiseach to intervene to keep this clinic open.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-30