Hospital offers to cover cancer screening gap

A LIMERICK hospital has offered to provide a breast cancer screening service to Waterford women until BreastCheck is rolled out for the south-east hub in two years’ time.

Management at Barrington’s Private Hospital and BreastCheck’s Director Tony O’Brien met on Wednesday to discuss the hospital’s proposal to provide mammograms to women from Waterford and some other counties.

Women in the high-risk age group of 50 to 64 would be given free mammograms at Barrington’s breast screening unit until BreastCheck is rolled out in Waterford in 2007.