Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion

Mr. Joseph Hughes:

We are at one, two or three. We are rock bottom. The only way is up.

To go back to what Deputy Durkan said, it is all about the golden hour when people present with sepsis. People may as well go to the milkman as the doctor. Nowadays the milkman has a better possibility of knowing what sepsis is. What is there is non-existent. The tree needs to be shaken. In 2019, we met the then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, who said that €1 million would be put aside for sepsis awareness. Nothing ever happened. The Minister moved jobs. There is no continuity.

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