Ahern to announce cancer treatment service for south-east

AN TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is expected to confirm within days that public patients from across the south-east will be allowed receive radiotherapy treatment at Waterford’s new Whitfield Clinic.

Fine Gael TD John Deasy said that if Mr Ahern confirms radiotherapy for public patients at Whitfield when he opens the 65-bed private clinic on Monday, it will be a progressive step.

He raised the issue of radiotherapy for public patients with Health Minister Mary Harney recently. He says her reply indicates the four-hour round trip for public patients in the south-east requiring radiotherapy in Cork and Dublin may be about to end.