Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Lyme Disease: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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No, but as the deputy chief medical officer of the State, I would hope Dr. Glynn would have some input into the matter. He pointed out that the ICD is just a dictionary and is not a set of clinical guidelines or anything else. How does one get an entry into the WHO dictionary for what are chronic conditions?