1854. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of a drug (details supplied), which is now recognised as valuable medication in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of the drug to medical card holders as a preventative medicine or to those under 60 years; to outline the current criteria being used to determine prescribing these drugs; if this drug can be made available to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35399/24]

Summary

1854. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of a drug (details supplied), which is now recognised as valuable medication in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of the drug to medical card holders as a preventative medicine or to those under 60 years; to outline the current criteria being used to determine prescribing these drugs; if this drug can be made available to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35399/24]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Medical Cards

  xml · EN · 9 September 2024

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.