Care director ‘sad and angry’ over failures in cancer case

THE mid-west’s director of cancer services said he was sad and angry that a woman’s breast cancer went undiagnosed when she was first referred for examination in 2005.

Strongly criticising the medical management of the woman, consultant medical oncologist Professor Rajnish Gupta said: “Personally I am extremely disappointed, sad, angry and concerned that it has happened, that it was allowed to happen.”

The 51-year-old woman originally from Co Tipperary, attended Barrington’s, a private hospital in Limerick, in September 2005.