Smear tests halted due to hospital staff freeze
Clinical director of laboratory medicine at University College Hospital Galway (UCHG), Professor Martin Cormican, has written to doctors in the south-east advising them of a “discontinuation” of the gynaecology cytology service in the region.
In his letter, Prof Cormican says the Department of Cytology at UCHG will be unable to provide a diagnostic gynaecological cytology service from the end of October because of the Health Service Executive (HSE) staff freeze introduced in September.
