Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 April 2004
321 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a medical card by the SHB despite suffering a heart attack and incurring a drugs bill of €360 per month. [10831/04]
View answerResponsibility for the provision of a medical card is, by legislation, a matter for the chief executive officer of the relevant health board-authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the Southern Health Board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply to him directly. Non-medical card holders can avail of the drugs payment scheme. Under this scheme, no individual or family unit pays more than €78 per calendar month towards the cost of approved prescribed medicines.
