A Cork lung cancer patient has raised questions about delays to vital scans and the impact of outsourcing the reading of those scans in her case.
Up to Thursday, 43-year-old Gillian Ryan, who lives in Bandon, Co Cork, had no date for a scan due six months after her last one in October.
“It is a surveillance scan to see where the cancer’s at, how it’s behaving. Basically, I need a scan to see if I’m dying or not,” she said.
“I did relay how anxious this was making me, this was my life at the end of the day.”
Her last scan was at a private clinic in Cork City under an arrangement with Cork University Hospital (CUH).
However, she was told this is no longer possible even when she offered to pay.
Last week she was given an appointment for June 7 at Bantry General Hospital.
This caused further distress because…