Man seeks HSE probe over daughter’s treatment

A father whose daughter has severe epilepsy has asked the health watchdog to investigate the HSE’s refusal to allow her travel abroad for treatment not available here.

Tom O’Connor has written to the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) asking it to examine why his daughter Gráinne, 27, must remain indefinitely on a waiting list for crucial tests that are not available here, while the HSE continues to claim that they are.

Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and Cork Univ-ersity Hospital (CUH) would be in a position to offer the tests but for the fact that their two epilepsy monitoring units remained closed in the absence of funds to staff them.