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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Dr. Murphy. It is very important that she would meet each of the two groups and soon. How many women have been fitted with a vaginal mesh in Ireland over the last 20 years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Presumably, the mesh is regarded as a medical appliance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Surely that data would have been identified for the CMO's report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The retrospective figures are the relevant ones.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Can the figures be accessed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Why can that not be done? The number are not massive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is Dr. Murphy saying that there is a complication rate of between 1% and 3%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is the complication rate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is international best practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How many people with complications have come to the attention of the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How many people had partial removal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: This whole thing displays an extraordinary dearth of data. These are procedures that have been carried out on people in this country in the HSE and Dr. Murphy cannot tell us the number plus an expert report was compiled in 2018. It is extraordinary that Dr. Murphy cannot produce those figures for us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but there must be manual records of the number of procedures that took place. Presumably they did not happen in every hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Was there any attempt made to request those 19 units to produce figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Surely, there is a record of the number of those devices that were used.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Kidd have a figure on the number of people who had a full removal, if any?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is it the case that there have been no full removals in Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Can Dr. Murphy get that information for us please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is okay. How many people applied for the treatment abroad scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Seven people. How many of those were approved?