Dear Editor,
On Friday morning last, I booked 22 patients into my Monday morning flu vaccine clinic. Some of these patients come in the 50 to 65 year age group, as we had been informed by the HSE that this age group was to be vaccinated this year.

The are in which I work, Mervue, Galway, is the same area affected by the recent lead contamination in their water supply, an area with a large elderly population and consequent increased health risk.

On the same day, I was astounded to hear on the 1 o'clock news that the HSE have decided to withdraw their recommended vaccination of this at risk age group. It beggars belief that this is how those in Primary Care were informed.

The HSE has turned its back on the weakest and voiceless of our society.

Minister Mary Hanafin has stated that whatever happens to the economy, the vulnerable will be protected. I find no evidence of this.

When people say to me, be reasonable, the HSE cannot get it right all the time, I can only reply in the words of Clint Eastwood: 'I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.'

Emer O'Byrne,
IPNA PRO
42 Fr Griffin Rd,
Galway

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