A 10th disease added to heel prick test screening
Three-year-old Dan Donoher, with his mother Laois GAA footballer Aisling Donoher, at Mansion house, Dublin, calling on Government to include SMA in the heelprick test given to all newborn babies. Dan was diagnosed after birth, but this short delay in diagnosis has had a significant impact on his health and abilities. Picture: Gareth Chaney
A 10th disease has now been added to the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme, which done through a heel prick test.
An eleventh condition is also under scrutiny for addition later this year.
