Catherine King

Catherine King

CATHERINE KING MP
Federal Member Ballarat
Shadow Minister Infrastructure, Transport & Regional Development

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Friday, 10 November 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

TURNBULL MRI FAILURE COULD BE EXPOSING CHILDREN TO HIGHER CANCER RISK

  • TURNBULL MRI FAILURE COULD BE EXPOSING CHILDREN TO HIGHER CANCER RISK

A Senate Inquiry has heard evidence that a lack of access to MRI technology under Turnbull – especially in regional and rural communities – could be driving up rates of cancer in children.

Witnesses from Children’s Healthcare Australasia told the inquiry that for about every 1000 CT scans a new case of cancer is created in an Australians child, and that access was a huge part of this:

“CT is often used as a proxy for a MRI scan particularly of the head in children in regional and rural Australia…”

“We know that kids are probably getting CT scans due to lack of access.”

[CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE AUSTRALASIA, SENATE INQUIRY, 9 NOVEMBER 2017]

Witnesses also said that the fact that the Liberals have only granted four licenses in the last four years was not good enough:

“So the Coalition Government’s only granted 4 licenses in the last four years, do you think that’s sufficient?” [SENATOR LOUISE PRATT]

“No. There’s clearly emerging parts of Australia that with population that, there’s been significant changes in the past four years.

[CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE AUSTRALASIA, SENATE INQUIRY, 9 NOVEMBER 2017]

Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare Catherine King said the Turnbull Government cannot ignore this crisis on their watch.

“This is extremely concerning – the experts are saying that Australian children are being exposed to a higher risk of cancer because of a lack of access to MRI technology in remote and rural Australia,” Ms King said.

“They have only granted four full/partial MRI licences in four years – with two handed out to Liberal marginal seats in Victoria in the middle of an election. Six of our eight states and territories haven’t had a single licence granted for more than five years.

“The lack of access to MRI technology is putting lives at risk and the Government’s failure to address this is a disgrace.”

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