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A NEW group is being formed to fight to retain a mammography service in Clare.
Following a meeting called by the Ennis General Hospital Development Committee, more than 20 people signed up to be part of a committee that will organise a campaign to have the county’s only mammography unit reopened.
The group will seek a new digital mammography unit at the Ennis hos- pital. It is proposed that the results can then be read from Limerick reduc- ing the travelling time for women and maintaining a vital health service in the
county. Chairperson of the Ennis Gen- eral Hospital Committee Peadar Mc- Namara said, “It has to be pointed out that the power rests with the two Fianna Fail deputies in Clare.
“This is an example of the whittling away of our health services.”
He said Limerick was over stretched at the moment and and stated con- cerned about the waiting time for Clare women.
“We had a service in Clare. We had a new room build for it and the day it was ready to open, the service was discon- tinued,’ he said.
The first mammography unit was opened in the 1980s following a fund- raising campaign by local women.