Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland
Mr. Damien Donoghue:
Then there is the follow-on from that. As Ms Nic Liam mentioned, if one has the surgery here in Ireland, one has all those pathways open to you. If it was very extensive, you would require physio or other therapies to support the recovery process. They would be automatically put in place. As you can imagine, a person goes through all that surgery and has to go privately looking for a physio to help on that journey to recovery. As we mentioned earlier, the patients are their best advocates because they do all that work while they are in debilitating pain and trying to be their own best advocates for their best outcomes. There are extra unnecessary complications there. If there were more supports in the interim while we are building our own resources nationally, that would be a good step in the right direction.
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