Galway Bay fm newsroom - There's a warning Ireland could see up to 1,800 additional cancer deaths over the next 12 months.
Fianna Fail's health spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has raised concern about a 56 percent drop in GP referrals to cancer clinics since the outbreak of Covid-19.
In the Sunday Times, he's warning the trend could result in Ireland having more additional deaths than Covid-19 fatalities over a year.
Consultant medical oncologist at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, Professor John Crown hopes that can be avoided.
He says the current restrictions are no doubt having a 'slowdown effects' on diagnostic testing and operations, but it's vital we try and get things back to normal over the coming weeks.
To hear more from Professor Crown, tune into Galway Bay fm news....
