Cancer treatment - Harney must fulfil health promises

THE chronic lack of resources for cancer treatment outside of the Dublin region is a damning indictment of the Government’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a world-class health service in Ireland.

As exclusively reported by the Irish Examiner, an award-winning cancer treatment specialist has quit his job because of a dire lack of resources, despite a four-year campaign for more personnel and better facilities for patients.

The scenario exposed by the shock resignation of Dr Oscar Breathnach, one of two oncologists serving a population of 500,000 in Kerry and Cork, is symptomatic of a health service in deep crisis.