Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 17 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening
Ms Rachel Morrogh:
We have run a communications campaign, as has the national cancer control programme, to encourage people. The CMO and Paul Reid, the chief executive of the HSE, have talked about the importance of getting people into the diagnostics. It is important that we expand those services, as the IMO has illustrated. Part of that will be physical capacity. We need to reassure people that cancers are still being diagnosed during the Covid pandemic. Anyone with a sign or symptom of cancer really needs to seek medical help.
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