Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion
Ms Sarah O'Connell:
It varies hugely. It is being prescribed. There are three main private services looking after long-Covid patients in this country and all three of them are prescribing it. There are some GPs around the country who in previous years had already been prescribing it for things like fibromyalgia and ME - it is prescribed for a whole host of conditions - and who are now prescribing it for long Covid. This is done by some GPs but that is not very common. We have heard of one clinic being open to prescribing it but generally no clinic is willing to prescribe low-dose naltrexone. We have a hard time just getting the clinics to consider prescribing basic medications.
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