€68m for mobility aids – who’s to blame?

YOUR editorial relating to the incredible cost of mobility aids within the HSE (August 17) highlights yet another example of gross mismanagement, at best, or the system being milked barefaced at worst.

I was given second-hand equipment by highly efficient, caring, but overworked therapists who operated out of cramped offices. They took the trouble to switch and swap components to suit my particular needs.

At the coalface the system works well, but then I was in Cork University Hospital. Other hospitals are not far behind as I have heard the same opinion from most wheelchair-users.