Mary Harney, Minister for Health has admitted at the weekend that it my be 2009 before some people in the West and the South will have access to Breastcheck.Until now all we have heard about is that it will be rolled out in 2007 thus creating the impression that it will be available next year. Not true. By roll out the Minister and the Government apparently only meant that they would start rolling it out.
It is disgusting that we are the wealthiest we have ever been yet the Government has refused to spend the extra money on making this service available nationwide. The cost of Electronic Voting would have covered Breastcheck.
We in Westport took up a petition recently and received a great responce taking up over 300 signatures in a matter of hours.
The thought that women in Mayo may be dying unnessesarily because they do not have access to this service is not good enough, it is a crime.
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Keith, Congrats on the campaign for BreastCheck. As part of the campaign I launched an online petition calling for the government to provide BreastCheck for women regardless of location. The link is http://www.petitiononline.com/051/petition.html
People are also starting to sign and circulate this amongst friends, work colleagues etc.
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