{"id":341432,"date":"2025-12-12T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341432\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:34:14","slug":"defunding-of-medication-blister-packs-needs-to-be-reversed-deputy-carthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341432\/","title":{"rendered":"Defunding of medication blister packs needs to be reversed &#8211; Deputy Carthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The D\u00e1il has heard there is extraordinary public anger over the withdrawal of blister packs being issued by pharmacies to vulnerable patients.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists have criticised the moves saying it will result in a significant increase in monthly expenses for those people.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Patrick O&#8217;Donovan said medical card holders have their expenses capped at 80 euro a month.<\/p>\n<p>But Sinn F\u00e9in TD Matt Carthy says the withdrawal of the medicine organising service for those vulnerable patients needs to be reversed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The D\u00e1il has heard there is extraordinary public anger over the withdrawal of blister packs being issued by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-341432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}