HSE has cut reimbursement rate for patients travelling for operations but many in need of procedure have little choice but to pay up
Passengers on the cataract bus from Cork to Belfast It's the 166th bus to have made the 900km round trip. Photographs: Ronan McGreevy
This is the 166th cataract bus to depart for Northern Ireland. The service has been running for years, having been started in 2017 by TDs Michael and Danny Healy-Rae in their Kerry consitiuency and Michael Collins TD in Cork, to remedy the long waiting list for cataract operations in their counties.Instagram star Garron Noone: ‘I’ve been broke most of my life. I’ve cleaned up people’s puke for money.
In the years since the bus started running, the State health budget has increased from €14 billion in 2017 to €23.5 billion this year, yet many still have to trave for healthcare. At 43, Catherine McCarthy, from Doneraile in north Cork, is young to have cataracts. It’s a hereditary condition in her case. She has two young children, works in data processing and cannot drive at night at present.
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