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22/11/2007
Cancer Misdiagnosis Row Rumbles On
The Minister for Health Mary Harney and HSE Chief Executive Brendan Drumm are expected to face tough questions when they appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee in Leinster House today.
This latest meeting comes in the wake of continuing controversy over the cancer misdiagnosis scandal at Portlaoise Hospital that has led to many women being wrongly cleared when in fact they required urgent treatment.
It is expected that both Mary Harney and Prof Drumm will use the occasion to again defend their plan to streamline all cancer services into just eight "centres of excellence" nationwide.
They have already said that this system would have prevented the Portlaoise scandal because of the extra expertise it provides.
(BMcC)
This latest meeting comes in the wake of continuing controversy over the cancer misdiagnosis scandal at Portlaoise Hospital that has led to many women being wrongly cleared when in fact they required urgent treatment.
It is expected that both Mary Harney and Prof Drumm will use the occasion to again defend their plan to streamline all cancer services into just eight "centres of excellence" nationwide.
They have already said that this system would have prevented the Portlaoise scandal because of the extra expertise it provides.
(BMcC)
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