Niamh O’Rourke, Advanced Nurse Practitioner candidate, Tomasz Piet, Barbara Piet, Agneszka Tkaczyk, Rafal Tkaczyk. Front, Zofia Piet, Maurycy Tkaczyk. Youngsters get state of the art new diabetes treatmentTwo young local people who are patients at the Paediatric Diabetes Service at MRH Mullingar made their own little bit of history last week. The new state of the art pump system automatically adjusts insulin to reduce both high and low-blood sugars by working on information from a Dexcom glucose monitor, worn on the skin. This represents a significant step forward for the once beleaguered diabetes service which shut temporarily in 2021 due to lack of staff.

Source: Irish Independent March 19, 2022 00:02 UTC