National Treatment Purchase Fund must be extended, Fianna Fáil say, as 200k wait for scans

CT scanner in CUH. File photo

Fianna Fáil say a Diagnostics Fund needs to be set up to cut down on a backlog of people waiting for scans.

Almost 200,000 people were waiting for CT or MRI scans at the end of March, with fears the list may have got longer due to Covid-19.