Cancer care crisis - The buck stops with the Tánaiste
Dr Seamus O’Reilly, the sole remaining consultant medical oncologist in the former Southern Health Board area, who single-handedly caters for a population of 500,000 people, has written to the minister to express his deep concern over the chronic cancer problems which are occurring in his region on her watch.
While a copy of the letter was also sent to Professor Brendan Drumm of the Health Service Executive, it is not good enough for Ms Harney to do a Pontius Pilate by saying this matter was one for the newly formed HSE.
