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Working Life: Hepatitis C is a silent disease - many are unaware they are infected 

Sheila O’Toole, hepatitis C clinical nurse specialist working with the National Hepatitis C Treatment Programme
Working Life: Hepatitis C is a silent disease - many are unaware they are infected 

Sheila O’Toole, hepatitis C clinical nurse specialist working with the National Hepatitis C Treatment Programme. Photograph Moya Nolan

6.35am

I have breakfast ahead of a 10km cycle to work. Today I am travelling to a Dublin drug treatment centre to carry out hepatitis C screening. I use the Cepheid Genexpert machine which is essentially a compact laboratory in a box that allows rapid diagnosis of hepatitis C infection on–site. My job is to increase awareness, identify infected patients and facilitate treatment in the community.

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