'Viagra is on medical card but Cariban cost me €3k when pregnant,' says Cork woman

Tina Hemlock-Coyne with her husband Tom Coyne, five-year-old daughter Lauren, and 10-month-old daughter Ria. Ms Hemlock-Coyne said she gets upset thinking about the drastic difference between her pregnancies with and without Cariban, and how others who are pregnant cannot afford the luxury.

A Kinsale-based mother-of-two who vomited up to 50 times a day during her first pregnancy has welcomed the Government's move to fund hyperemesis drug Cariban.

Tina Hemlock Coyne has been pregnant twice over the last six years. During her first pregnancy, there was no treatment that could help her extreme hyperemesis, which left her vomiting up to 50 times a day.