Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Since the launch of the national stroke programme, the death rate from stroke has fallen by 13% and the rate of discharge from nursing homes is up 28%, with savings of at least €21 million per year being made in reduced nursing home costs alone. Those statistics could be doubled if the Minister could provide the required investment, into both hospitals and the committee, to deliver on the totality of the national stroke programme and to install in the acute hospitals the seven telemedicine stoke machines that are currently in a warehouse in Cork.

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