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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Who sets the policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: From a clinical perspective, who is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Am I right to say that it is Dr. Murphy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Who is the clinical lead for vaginal mesh issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is a group of women here who clearly have been harmed and whose lives have been very negatively impacted by the treatment they received within the Irish health service. They need to be able to engage with somebody at a senior level within the HSE and there has not been that engagement. I ask the witnesses to meet them. Dr. Murphy is the most obvious person to meet them. I ask her to...
- 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.