Results 1-19 of 19 for lyme disease speaker:Rose Conway Walsh

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...the witnesses for their presentations. I am particularly interested in Dr. Lambert and his expertise. I thank him very much for all of the information he has given. My most recent contact with Lyme disease was when I saw a woman packing bags in SuperValu a couple of weeks ago in Castlebar. She explained she was doing it to raise money for her daughter who was chronically ill with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: My information is that there is no doctor there now, although I stand to be corrected on that. If a person watching proceedings today is experiencing symptoms that point to Lyme disease, what should he or she do? Say this person is living in the west of Ireland without the means to go anywhere privately. What does that person do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can the GP do a clinical diagnosis to tell people if they have Lyme disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to get back to the GPs and the GP training. At this stage, how many GPs in Ireland are trained on Lyme disease? How long does the training take? What form does it take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If the State were to decide tomorrow to get its GPs trained in respect of Lyme disease, what would it need to do? What expertise does it need to bring in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand what Ms Lawless is saying there. We have limited time to ask questions. If we had a critical mass of GPs who had enough awareness and enough training on the subject of Lyme disease, perhaps we would get somewhere because there would be the pressure from the GPs as well, in terms of the new information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...for the earlier discussion. The committee is trying to match what the witnesses are saying with what what we were told in the previous session and the people who come to us to say that they have Lyme disease and nowhere to go and it will cost them a significant amount of money and so on. I am very glad to see that in the conclusions of the written statement submitted by the IDSI it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many people are tested per year for Lyme disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many people go to their GP with suspected Lyme disease and are tested for the disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Might the number with Lyme disease be higher than suspected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...was in the 1991 study but, considering that a rate of 9.75% was identified among a random sample of blood donors, could one extrapolate that, given a population of 4 million, many people may have Lyme disease and be unaware of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: However, they can have Lyme disease.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If somebody goes to his or her GP with symptoms and thinks it might be Lyme disease, can he or she ask for a test? Is that person entitled to a test?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...about this we must get to the bottom of it. We have many other issues to deal with within and without the Joint Committee on Health. We want to find out how many people in the country have Lyme disease and how many people are being treated. Unless we have the information it cannot be dismissed as just a few people. I would suggest that we need that information. A request to the GPs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many people have been diagnosed with Lyme disease overseas and have had that diagnosis overturned here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What can we do for the ones who are not au fait with Lyme disease. What more can we do to fill the training gap?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is Dr. De Gascun is saying that there is sufficient expertise in the State to diagnose Lyme disease and to treat it, etc.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: ...repeated? A person presented to a hospital and the clinician laughed in her face and told her to go home. Subsequently, she attended the surgery of a sympathetic GP who asked whether it could be Lyme disease. The GP performed the test and the result was positive. Is there a role our guests could play to ensure that does not happen and that clinicians treat patients seriously? The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: In terms of the checks that GPs and clinicians carry out, does the information with which they are provided prompt them to check for sepsis or Lyme disease? Is there a way of simplifying the process?