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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that scientific evidence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it validated scientific evidence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In that case, it is not validated evidence. Sometimes the WHO uses validated scientific evidence and other times it does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The condition might not exist then, so the WHO has a list of things people just dream up. Mr. Glynn said a minute ago that the WHO bases the ICD on validated science but now he is saying this is not the case, that it is just an ad hoclist into which people can throw the names of anything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is very worrying that Dr. Glynn, as the deputy chief medical officer of the State, is not an authority on this issue. I refer to the document I have seen which the witnesses have provided. Dr. Lambert is not associated with it but the witnesses prepared it specifically for this committee. It seems to be consistent with the view other than Dr. Lambert's. It mentions, and Dr. Glynn...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is something I have come across internationally as well. The document references some studies in the national health institutes of the United States and other areas. Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome does not have an International Classification of Diseases code. I wonder why that is. I am just asking. That no one appears to be able to answer is a concern because I thought we were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That said, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome is not an established or recognised code within the World Health Organization. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As things stand. Has Dr. Glynn sent in a submission to have that changed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: They are already adopted but they will not be pro formaapproved until next May. What happens then? Ireland fed into the process and I have seen this in parliamentary questions and answers from the Minister, most recently last week, where it says we are at the beginning of the process and it will not be agreed until next May. They will be rubber-stamped next May. All of the negotiations...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That will come after.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is the 22, not including Dr. Lambert. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What relevance have they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Why do we bother sending people to participate in this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: One can opt in or out if it suits. Is that it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What is their purpose?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We are in the middle of a response.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In its practical delivery-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The position of the office of the CMO, deputy CMO and the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland is that the ICD codes have no tangible practical relationship to clinical guidance or treatment. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Dr. McKeown said it was administrative, so I am struggling to get this as a layperson.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It has almost no relevance then.