‘Medical apartheid’ in cancer treatment

PUBLIC patients are still being “short-changed” when it comes to accessing cancer care in Waterford.

Sufferers who do not have private health insurance have to travel to Dublin for specialist treatment — although there is a privately run cancer centre in Waterford.

The chairman of the HSE’s Regional Health Forum South said he was “very disturbed” to learn that patients had to travel to Dublin for state-of-the-art diagnostic scanning.