25 protest outside Dáil but 12,000 cancer patients signed petition to renew specialist’s contract

It was always going to be a small protest outside Leinster House yesterday because most of those at the centre of the campaign were too ill to be there.

About 25 people demonstrated outside Dáil Éireann, but more than 12,000 have already signed an online petition calling on St Vincents’ University Hospital in Dublin to renew a specialist’s contract.

Sarcoma patients and their families want an assurance that the standard of care for sarcoma patients will not decline with the departure of Dr Alexia Bertuzzi this week.