
Dr. Rosie Mangan says community care should be seen as an entitlement.
Calls are being made to fully staff a rehabilitation team to support people with brain injuries in the midlands.
Currently only 15% of patients in the country can access the care and support they need - as there are only two partially staffed neurorehabilitation teams in Ireland, and none in the CHO 8 area, which includes Laois, Offaly and Westmeath.
These teams provide speech and language, occupation and physio therapies.
Patient Representative of Neurological Alliance of Ireland, Dr. Rosie Mangan, from Daingean says this kind of community care is a human right: