Hospital Tunes in at Last

ONE of the women facing the agonising prospect of undergoing more tests to find out if she has breast cancer had to use a radio station to secure a hospital appointment.

Margaret Murray is one of 45 women who have been recalled by the Health Service Executive as part of a review of 2, 9000 mammograms at Midlands Hospital in Portlaoise.

The mother-of-five from Co. Offaly was told by the Health Service Executive that she would be contacted yesterday morning to make an appointment for the retesting. She had cancelled two earlier appointments due to personal reasons. She was also anxious as her mother had died of breast cancer.

Despite her anxiety and a public statement issued by the HSE to say that it would contact Mrs Murray to make a new appointment, by 12.30 yesterday she had still not heard from health authorities.

But within just over an hour of the Tullamore woman speaking on New-stalk FM’s Lunchtime With Eamon Keane, she was contacted the Director of Nursing at the Midland Regional Hospital.

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