Consultant: 'Veritable tsunami' of non-Covid medical conditions going untreated

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The Director of the Prostate Institute at NUI Galway and a consultant in the Galway Clinic, professor Frank Sullivan has warned that there could be 1,800 to 2,000 deaths in Ireland from cancer because patients cannot access care during the Covid-19 crisis.

“I'm worried about the veritable tsunami of non-Covid chronic medical conditions that are sitting out there,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Séan O’Rourke show.