Older people’s medical cards ‘unfairly axed’

Older people had lost their medical cards in the past year without a proper financial assessment, a patients’ advocate claimed.

Stephen McMahon said the “untimely and unexpected” removal of medical cards had caused enormous stress, not only to the patients, but to families.

“It was clearly a decision that was made without a proper financial assessment,” the chairman of the Irish Patients’ Association said yesterday.