Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Professor Aiden McCormick:

We have done estimates using the census figures and international figures in drug prevalence in the various countries the immigrant population comes from. The net figure I came up with was 392 migrants with hepatitis C viremia per year because a lot of migrants come and go. We estimate the net figure is probably about 400 a year.