Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Lyme Disease: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

From where Dr. Lambert sits, and we seem to have established this from listening to the answers to other people's questions this morning, this is an area that is not funded, where no official GP training is provided by the State and where, in the absence of an absolute agreed gold standard in testing and clinical diagnosis, it is the luck of the draw based on the level of knowledge of the GP or whether the patient is lucky enough to have been led to Dr. Lambert. Is that a fair assessment of the situation surrounding Lyme disease in Ireland at the moment?

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