A senior Irish medic said only a tenth of women invited to attend made appointments for cervical cancer screening during the pandemic (Peter Byrne/PA)Only a tenth of women invited to attend made appointments for cervical cancer screening during the pandemic, a senior Irish medic said. Out of 110,000 invitations, only 12,000 have come forward, Dr Noirin Russell added. “People are afraid to come forward. Dr Russell said it was impossible to have a functioning cervical cancer screening service without a functioning gynaecology service. “I am firmly of the view that these choices would never have arisen, at least at such scale, if we had sufficiently invested in our health services over time.

Source: Irish Independent October 10, 2020 11:48 UTC