'I need a scan to see if I’m dying': Cork cancer patient queries outsourcing and delays

Cork mother Gillian Ryan criticises HSE delays and scan outsourcing after facing months without vital cancer surveillance imaging
'I need a scan to see if I’m dying': Cork cancer patient queries outsourcing and delays

Gillian Ryan from Bandon, Co Cork, had no date for a scan due six months after her last one in October.

A Cork lung cancer patient has raised questions about delays to vital scans and the impact of outsourcing the reading of those scans in her case. 

Up to Thursday, 43-year-old Gillian Ryan, who lives in Bandon, Co Cork, had no date for a scan due six months after her last one in October.

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