PQ 100
99 Mr. Perry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that diabetes is a potentially serious disease if it is not managed and treated properly and is increasing at an alarming rate and is expected to double in the next 10 years if measures are not put in place; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is no full-time endocrinologist and attending team in Sligo General Hospital and that a part-time locum on a short term contract is only available in Sligo; the directive she will issue to the Health Service Executive to redress this matter and also to provide a counselling service, paediatric diabetes nurse, chiropody services, a community diabetes nurse specialist and free doctor visits or selected number of visits annually for diabetes patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24309/06]
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99 Mr. Perry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that diabetes is a potentially serious disease if it is not managed and treated properly and is increasing at an alarming rate and is expected to double in the next 10 years if measures are not put in place; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is no full-time endocrinologist and attending team in Sligo General Hospital and that a part-time locum on a short term contract is only available in Sligo; the directive she will issue to the Health Service Executive to redress this matter and also to provide a counselling service, paediatric diabetes nurse, chiropody services, a community diabetes nurse specialist and free doctor visits or selected number of visits annually for diabetes patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24309/06]
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2006-06-22/100/
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