‘Endangering lives for the sake of a few euro’

“THEY are endangering people’s lives for the sake of a few euro.”

These are the words of Regina Hennelly, a 29-year-old dialysis patient on the kidney transplant waiting list, who has been forced to live without a medical card for almost six months due to HSE bureaucracy.

At the start of August, Regina, a journalist from Rathfarnham in Dublin, applied for her medical card to be renewed as its standard three-year period had run out.