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.

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.