Comment: Cancer care needs life-saving strategy in Budget

The government has to put right the severe underfunding of the sector in Budget 2021 if lives are to be saved, writes Rachel Morragh of the Irish Cancer Society.

More than 9,000 people a year die from cancer in Ireland and services are struggling to cope. File Picture.

Towards the end of March, all non-urgent surgery, health procedures, and services were postponed.

Seven months on, one of the most important budgets in the history of the state may impact the course for our health services for years to come.