Smears fail 24 Cork women

Twenty-four women who attended the cancer centre at Cork University Hospital and 16 from University Hospital Waterford are among the 209 nationally who were failed by smear tests.

Chief operations officer at South/South West Hospital Group, Gerard O’Callaghan, revealed the figures for the ‘false negative’ smears at a Regional Health Forum in County Hall.

“Nationally, the amount of women affected is 209 and we have two cancer centres here in the south: Cork University Hospital (CUH) and University Hospital Waterford (UHW),” he said.