Medical card crux for spinal cord injury victims

MORE people with a spinal injury would return to work if they could keep their medical card, Spinal Injuries Ireland said yesterday.

Medical card crux for spinal cord injury victims

New statistics show that more than two-thirds of people who sustain a spinal injury cannot go back to work.

However, chief executive of Spinal Injuries Ireland, Colm Whooley, believes around half would go back to work if they could keep their means-tested medical card.

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