Phone service to help deal with poisons

A TELEPHONE service has been launched by the National Poisons Information Centre to help people, particularly parents, deal with accidents involving poisons.

The NPIC, based in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, provides a round-the-clock specialist information service to doctors and healthcare professionals.

In recent years, there has been a growing demand from members of the public for advice, with such calls accounting for about a quarter of the 10,000 the NPIC receives each year.