Department spent €8,975 on couriers to collect and deliver medical cannabis during Covid-19
Travel restrictions introduced during the pandemic saw the department step in to assist patients with ministerial licences for medical cannabis to obtain the drugs by setting up a “temporary collection and delivery scheme” using a courier service. File picture: iStock
The Department of Health spent close to €9,000 on couriers to collect and deliver medical cannabis from the Netherlands for dozens of Irish patients, who could not travel abroad during the Covid-19 lockdown, the has learned.
Travel restrictions introduced during the pandemic saw the department step in to assist patients with ministerial licences for medical cannabis to obtain the drugs by setting up a “temporary collection and delivery scheme” using a courier service.
