Sunday, 1 January 2012

For those of my readers that are interested I have written a begging letter to ‘GRACE’ which is a local (as in Surrey) cervical cancer fund and has helped fund the ‘Robot’ at the Royal Surrey Hospital. As you might imagine these parts are long way from robots but a very short way from a national problem of untreated cervical cancer. Some of this is treatable surgically and could be operated on by local surgeons with appropriate training – hence my cunning plan. If it works, and sustainability is all, they can all go on teaching each other and we have a rolling program of cervical cancer surgery.
However patients have to pay (probably around £80) for their surgery currently, (and this is out of range for the rural and affected population whose average working wage is £10 a week if they are lucky, nurses here who are trained get £40 a month) but if we could show that it works, even in the short term we could try to get the government to fund it in much the same way that they currently allegedly fund maternity care. Basically I am after around £1,000 to fund 10 cases and see how it goes. Have a read and if you know of a charity that would like to help let me know!

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