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Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced provision for the delivery and funding of the Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme.
“The Budget in October 2020 saw an extra €4 billion added to the Health Budget. This increase is indicative of how determined we in Government are to fund an expansion of, and improvements in, our health and social care services, said Minister Donnelly.
“One of the improvements in our health services that will benefit from this extra funding is the Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme, which has been added to the HSE Service Plan for 2021. The purpose of this programme is to facilitate compassionate access to cannabis for medical reasons, where conventional treatment has failed. It follows the clear pathway laid out by the Health Products Regulatory Authority in their expert report
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly will tomorrow ask the Cabinet to approve an agreement with doctors and pharmacists to administer Covid-19 vaccines.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that by Sunday night 94,000 vaccines were administered with 71,000 to frontline healthcare workers and 23,000 to residents and staff of long-term care facilities.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has confirmed that as of Sunday, 94,000 people or 1.9pc of our population, had received their first dose of a vaccine.