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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Department of Defence

Departmental Data

Photo of Sorca ClarkeSorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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244. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the prescribing figures for malarone, doxycycline and lariam for overseas service in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [49926/21]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Information is not readily available for the numbers prescribed malarone, doxycycline or lariam. Patient medical records are confidential and access to prescription information is restricted to medical professionals. Collation of information regarding individual prescriptions would require all Medical Officers in the Defence Forces to examine each medical record for patients treated in the periods in question and is unfeasible.

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