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  • Minister warned on cancer services in 2002

    21:05 Former minister for health Micheál Martin was warned nearly six years ago of inadequate cancer services at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, it has emerged. Consultant surgeon Peter Naughton wrote to Mr Martin telling him there had been no progress in creating a breast cancer unit in Portlaoise a year after it had been approved. Fine Gael health spokesman Dr James Reilly said the letter proved assurances from Minister for Health Mary Harney that Mr Martin had not not been sent a warning about Portlaoise were false.
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