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Fri 10 Oct 2009HSE leaves boy (14) without 'life-essential treatment'
THE HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) has pulled the plug on funding for a 14-year-old Dublin boy to travel to the US for what his mother describes as “life-essential treatment” not available here.
Adam Costello-Doherty has been travelling to the Paediatric Centre of Rare and Complex Diseases in Newark for the past seven years for treatment of common variable immune deficiency (CVID). Up to now, treatment has been funded by the HSE under its Treatment Abroad Scheme, availed of by filling out an E112 form.
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