Transplant crisis – ‘Clinical judgment’ is fatally flawed

SLOWLY strangled by bureaucratic red tape, Billy Burke’s young life is ebbing away.

Transplant crisis – ‘Clinical judgment’ is fatally flawed
Sat, 10 Apr, 2004 - 01:00

Unless Health Minister Micheál Martin intervenes as he has promised, the outlook for him is bleak.

That's the stark reality of the 29-year-old Killorglin man's life and death situation.

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