Letters to the Editor: Medical card plea from exhausted mum/carer

Letters to the Editor: Medical card plea from exhausted mum/carer
Sat, 09 Jan, 2021 - 10:17

I’m writing because I received a letter from the HSE on Saturday, December 19. It is a letter looking to review my medical card.

I’m a lone parent of two children, a full-time carer to one of them who is home from school since early March last year. He has a severe/ profound intellectual disability and has complex medical issues. He is immunosuppressed, a wheelchair user, and requires around the clock care.

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<p>'A certain type of child, especially with profound autism, will always require a high level of support and parents should not have to exhaust every aspect of the HSE in order to get the right one'. File picture</p>

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