Just returned from a successful trip to Dublin. One of the main issues in the papers there is the decision by Health Minister Mary Harney to postpone the implementation of a vaccination programme for cervical cancer.
As somone who has in the recent past been involved with groups who successfully ensured that just such a programme would be implemented north of the border I feel this is a bad decision.
The media have written about this as if the decision was taken to cancel rather than postpone the programme. Whilst postponing will just increase the costs of a programme through catch up the government and the Minister have done a terrible job of defending and clarifying this decision to the people.
Health Departments on both sides of the border require significantly increased funding, and perhaps always will, but no issue including the economic crises should ever come before preventing a deadly disease such as cancer.
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