A cancer survivor has said she has been left “in complete limbo”, after her hospital tests were cancelled due to the health service cyberattack, which has resulted in a curtailment of appointments. Ms Troy was then placed on a drug to help prevent the cancer returning, a side effect of which can be lower heart function. She was due to have an echocardiogram, a test to examine her heart function, on Tuesday morning in University Hospital Waterford. “I was looking towards tomorrow, that I would hopefully find out my heart function has improved and I could restart [the drug],” she said. “This has just left me in complete limbo … I don’t know when I’ll get the scan at the moment,” she said.

Source: The Irish Times May 17, 2021 16:29 UTC