City mayor attacks healthcare system

DESPITE all the progress made in medical circles, far too many are still crying out for the very minimum in healthcare, a city mayor says.

The gap in Ireland’s two-tier health system is broadening, despite all the political promises, Kilkenny mayor Martin Brett said yesterday, as he helped launch a fundraiser for cancer sufferers.

As the South East Radiotherapy Trust was extended into Kilkenny yesterday, the mayor and others appealed to the people of Carlow and Kilkenny to dig deep and support the fund which helps transport cancer sufferers to Dublin for the radiotherapy care they need.