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Hidradenitis suppurativa wound care available through Irish GPs
Ireland is the first country to offer HS-specific wound dressing through public health as wound care solution HidraWear is added to the HSE s primary care reimbursement scheme
Tue, May 11, 2021, 09:00
Updated: Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 14:56 Supplied by HidraMed Solutions
In April, Ireland became the first country in the world to offer
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) patients a specific wound dressing through the Health Service Executive. This is an important step for patients with this chronic, incurable disease.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was in New York last December to present of a sculpture to the United Nations. Entitled
Arrival, the bronze piece was created by John Behan, Ireland’s foremost sculptor, and was installed on the north lawn of the UN headquarters. Situated only yards from the East River, and standing 23 feet high, it depicts a nineteenth-century emigrant ship with its passengers disembarking. It is a companion piece to Behan’s famine ship sculpture, which site on the west coast of Ireland, in Murrisk, County Mayo.
The brainchild of Martin Cullen, T.D. and Barry McGrath,
Chairman of the Office of Public Works, the sculpture is designed to celebrate