The Minister for Health Simon Harris TD has announced that the Department’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Tom O’Connell has requested the Health Service Executive (HSE) to pause the use of all procedures involving transvaginal mesh devices for the management of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) or Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) in HSE funded hospitals, in cases where it is clinically appropriate and safe to do so.
This announcement follows a review by the Department of Health together with the HSE and the Health Products Regulatory Agency (HPRA), of the decision by health authorities in England and Northern Ireland to pause the use of mesh in those countries on the recommendation of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review (IMMDS) until a set of conditions to mitigate the risks of injury are met.
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