I am telling the story of the frustrations of the Mandurah Angels Breast Cancer Social Support Group. We are just under 100 Peel women who have had or currently have breast cancer. Our local Peel hospital has fabulous McGrath nurses whom are active and making a difference.
However, it seems our local Peel Health Campus is not fully equipped or staffed to ensure women and men across our region are correctly diagnosed, treated and followed up. We have multiple examples of late diagnosis and misdiagnosis we believe is due to the lack of a dedicated Breast Assessment Clinic at the Peel Hospital. We are frustrated.
We have engaged through the correct channels via a petition with near 3000 signatures which despite being handed to our locals MPs , a third have still not been delivered at parliament from 2024. We had heard via our MPs that a conversation with our WA Health Minister took place, however, we have had no feedback.
We were told that such centres had to be in Tertiary hospitals, however we have seen the most recent centres all being built in north Perth shopping centres, and still none is planned for the southern Peel region for at least another 15 to 20 years. With a population growth of 250% projected, we are now angry that we need to continue to watch our friends and family suffer. If anyone out there has any ideas, or can make some noise to those who make the plans and allocate funds, please do so.
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