RADIOLOGY services in the north-east are in disarray, and the Health Service Executive's (HSE) promise of rechecking some 6,000 X-rays there within two months is a "physical impossibility".
Dr Mary Grehan, a Dundalk councillor and founder of the Association of General Practitioners, said the already overstretched radiology service in the north-east would not be able to handle the extra 750 X-rays a week required to meet that deadline without extra staff.
Some 4,950 patients, meanwhile, face an anxious wait to find out if their X-rays and CT scans were misdiagnosed.
"It's a physical impossibility and patients are already worried by this," according to Dr Grehan.
source: Independent.ie
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