GALWAY CONSULTANT TO MAKE OIREACHTAS PRESENTATION ON ARTASSIST DEVICE

Date Published: 20-Mar-2013

A Galway consultant will speak with TDs and Senators in Government buildings today about restoring HSE funding for a potentially life-saving medical device.

Consultant endo vascular specialist at Galway University Hospitals Sherif Sultan will make a presentation on the ArtAssist home device.

The equipment which increases arterial blood flow to the leg is currently used by over 550 patients in Ireland.

It can be rented from a company for 90 days for 12 hundred euro, and could save a leg from amputation.

Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh is facilitating the meeting at Leinster House this lunch time. (1:30)

He claims the decision to withold funding for the medical device from patients in Mayo, Galway and Roscommon is ‘short sighted’.

Speaking on Galway Talks, Consultant Sherif Sultan said using the device would actually save the HSE money in the long run