Message from Janette Byrne, Cancer survivor and Patients Together Spokesperson

Planning for the protest march of October 11th:

In recent years we have all heard of the horrendous way some cancer patients have suffered in our Health System.

• Late diagnosis. (Too late for our friend Susie Long and many others)
• Misdiagnosis
• No Beds
• Long waits for scans, chemotherapy, radiotherapy
• Some losing their lives not to cancer but to hospital acquired infections

As part of the ‘Public Health Campaign’s’ protest on the 11th of October and with your help we want to create a ‘bandana bunting’

 

What’s involved:

• If you were a cancer patient you can bring a bandana and pin it on with everyone else on the day.
• If you had a loved one who experienced cancer and you wish to pin a bandana on their behalf that is fine also.
• Bandanas may be signed and include a message.
• We want to make this cancer patients support as large as possible.
• If you are unwell and unable to attend the protest you can post your bandana to 82, Finglas Park  Dublin 11

 

Only with your support will this happen.

Lets make this protest the greatest ever, we did it for the Antiwar campaign, we did it for Irish Ferries, we even did it in support of Beweley’s, now your health deserves your support.

Please forward this message to others

Janette Byrne Patients Together 085-7302798

 

Irish Times Article: “Campaigners for a lost cause?”

More than bricks and mortar; ‘St Luke’s Hospital is in an absolutely beautiful place, and if I were a cancer patient in Dublin and offered a choice, I’d go there, because environment does matter,’ says Ian Fraser, consultant radiation oncologist at the hospital.St Luke’s cancer hospital is scheduled for relocation to a new centre of excellence, but supporters continue to fundraise and some resist the move. Are they wasting their time, asks Rosita Boland

 

ST LUKE’S HOSPITAL, in Rathgar, Co Dublin, is one of those medical institutions held in particular esteem by the public. With its 179 beds, it has been in operation as a cancer hospital since 1954, and its staff have long been praised for their thoughtful, sensitive and respectful dealings with patients at a particularly vulnerable time.
Cancer treatment requires regular attendance over a period, and is not a process easily forgotten. The affection in which St Luke’s is held is probably best demonstrated by the fact that former patients, and their family and friends, have raised €25 million for the hospital since 1980.