Fine Gael Senator questions health service structures that allows ‘no oversight, feedback or care plan’
Minister of State for Disabilities Anne Rabbitte has apologised to the family of a 29-year-old man who is a ward of court and was transferred by the HSE to a healthcare facility in the UK 18 months ago.
She said “nobody feels any obligation to tell them anything about their son and brother” and she questioned “the structures within the HSE that would allow such a lack of oversight”. The young man “is very interested in sports but has no access to sport or to watching it on television”, and when the family asks questions, “neither the HSE nor St Andrew’s Healthcare are responding”.
The Senator said the man was told by the HSE that he was going to the UK for two years. “That two-year deadline is coming up shortly and he is obsessed with the idea that he is coming home then but nobody knows anything about it. The Minister said she did not know the diagnosis and did not know what treatment was being made available. She added that “if the family are watching now or will watch the recording later, I acknowledge their involvement in their son or brother’s care.
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