Government fails to set date for cervical cancer screening service

THE Government continues to stall on setting a date for the implementation of a national cervical cancer screening service, despite Ireland having one of the highest death rates in the world from the disease.

A young mother is now dying because her smear test was misread at a time when the cancer could have been completely eradicated.

The Irish Cancer Society (ICS) says her case underlines the need to introduce the long-promised programme that will save more than 60 women's lives every year.