Maresa Fagan: Knock-on effect of Covid-19 leaves cancer test backlog

Thousands left waiting for services after screening was suspended in March, writes Maresa Fagan

File photo of a consultant analyzing a mammogram. 

There are so many dark sides to Covid-19. In addition to the growing global death toll, now well above one million, it is wreaking havoc on our social and economic wellbeing, as well as health services around the world.

This point was plain to see in Ireland from the very outset of the pandemic, when we shut down our health service and braced ourselves for the worst.