Dermot Fitzpatrick
Ceist:243 Mr. Fitzpatrick asked the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on the arrangements for liver transplants for public patients in this country.
Written Answers. - Liver Transplants.
My Department entered into a formal agreement with Camberwell Health Authority on 1 March 1991 which provides that all public patients from this country requiring liver transplantation will be operated on at King's College Hospital, London. Under the agreement, Irish medical staff will be seconded to King's College Hospital to receive appropriate training and experience to enable a liver transplant service to be reestablished in Ireland as soon as circumstances allow.
The liver unit at King's College Hospital has an international reputation and I would like to assure the Deputy that the patients concerned will be treated in a clinical facility of the highest quality with an excellent success rate.