Posted on 05/11/2018 9:07:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Health Service Executive (HSE) should be “dismantled and reassembled” following the smear test scandal, cervical cancer patient Emma Mhic Mhathúna has told RTE’s Late Late Show.
Ms. Mhic Mhathúna (37), a mother of five, is one of scores of Irish women who were wrongly told they had normal smear tests through the CervicalCheck screening program.
Asked about the action taken by the Government in recent days to deal with the fallout from the controversy, Ms Mhic Mhathúna told Ryan Tubridy “talk is cheap”.
“They’re afraid of me because I’m telling it like it is,” she said. “They have cost me my life. I shouldn’t be dying. I’m dying because they tried to cut corners and they just didn’t listen. Talk is cheap. When your back is to the wall, you’ll say anything. I’m glad they are listening to me. It’s unfortunate it’s taken my life for them to listen to me — the lives of my children — that’s made them stop.” …
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They’re going to get rid of it and then bring it back.
Well, Mhic Mhathúna (Mahony) did call for it to be “reassembled”.
Surprised Irish Times is a liberal paper
They’re just pushing for more government intervention. Remember that Emma McMahoney (one transliteration of her name) called for the government service to be “reassembled” instead of replaced with private-sector alternatives.
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