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Kirsty Winstanley's family opposes cancer screening unit closure
8:30am Friday 19th March 2010
THE family of Kirsty Winstanley have added their voice to the chorus of disapproval over proposals to close a cancer screening unit.
Britain’s largest union, Unite, has criticised the NHS for planning to shut the cervical cytological services at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital, despite claims that more young women are being tested.
Kirsty’s family continue to fight a high-profile campaign to have the age at which young women are screened for cervical cancer reduced from 25 to 20.
Kirsty died from the disease last August aged just 23, leaving a young son Aidan.
Unite claims this move could put thousands of women across Merseyside at risk.
Kirsty’s sister-in-law Lorraine Atherton added: “It’s important that facilities like this are not closed, because there’s not enough of them as it is.
“To be cutting back on services, which are already to the bare minimum, is wrong.”
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