Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have no problem with the HSE going into the healthcare setting and making them aware but the committee spoke with Mr. Hughes the other day and the Hughes family did not know about sepsis up until that time. The public must be made aware of it and they may pick up on some of those signs before it gets to hospital stage. The Hughes family is going around voluntarily trying to make other families aware of what is going on. The HSE should do that; it should not be up to individual families to carry out a nationwide campaign to make the public aware. It should also be up to the healthcare settings and we all know the healthcare staff need to be trained and made aware of the symptoms. However, if the public knows about some of those symptoms, it may save a lot of lives. Like I said, in the overall scheme of things it would be small money to run a campaign like that and if that only saves one life then as far as I am concerned it should be done.