asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for financial aid to be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8, who is deaf in one ear and is hard of hearing in the other, towards the purchase of a hearing aid since she has been refused a medical card as she is £9 over the limit.
Written Answers. - Provision of Hearing Aid.
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The Eastern Health Board authorises the provision of hearing aids to medical card holders whose need for an aid has been diagnosed by a general practitioner. Persons who do not hold medical cards but who feel they would experience hardship in providing a hearing aid for themselves may make an application to the chief executive officer of their health board. The health board examines each such application in the light of the financial circumstances of the applicant. The person concerned has not yet made an application to the health board for the provision of a hearing aid on hardship grounds.