Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 17 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening
Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms Morrogh. My second question is also for the society. This was obviously a very serious situation and everyone must take all the public health advice and measures seriously. However, does the society believe that it was necessary to cut the services to the level that was done? Was there not some safe way of carrying out some of these cancer screenings? Covid is extremely serious but there are so many illnesses, cancer being one, that affect so many people and early diagnosis is key in everything. Was there not a way to carry out some of those screenings? I would like to know the society's opinion on that.
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