ACTION Cancer, a charity based in the North, is set to extend its services to Donegal after winning a contract with the HSE.
Women in Sligo and Leitrim will also benefit from the new mammography service which begins in six weeks’ time.
South Donegal election candidate John Perry TD said Action Cancer would “provide a safe, quality and evidenced based service to women” in the north west.
“I can confirm that a company named Action Cancer, Belfast has been awarded the tender from HSE procurement,” said Deputy Perry.
“I’m pleased now that the Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal areas will be served. I expect it will begin as soon as early March.
Hundreds of patients travel for follow-up treatment to Galway annually and the initial decision not to provide a service in Sligo was “grossly unfair and had to be reversed,” he said.
The service will operate under the governance of the Symptomatic Disease Service at Galway and all reporting will be carried out by HSE Consultant Radiologists in UHG.
The tender requires that the mobile service is of a comparable standard and quality to that provided in Galway and that it can be linked electronically to the Group’s imaging system. The mobile service will be shared between hospitals in the SAOLTA group, Sligo, Letterkenny, Castlebar, Roscommon, Portiuncula, UHG and Merlin Park in Galway.
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