Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Tackling Childhood Obesity: W82GO! Weight Management Service

9:30 am

Dr. Grace O'Malley:

No such procedures are done in the public health system for children and adolescents. Some children might be going to the UK, but we are not aware of any child who has gone there from our hospital. Best practice involves providing bariatric procedures to adolescents in the most severe cases because it is lifesaving surgery for some teenagers.