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.