In this sense, opposition politician Alfred Dawes explained that this situation makes it more difficult to carry out adequate investigations such as colonoscopies to diagnose these ailments at an earlier stage.

When this happens patients present at a much more advanced stage, and the results are worse.

Since the government stopped paying for this equipment many people cannot afford their diagnostics, Dawes lamented.

This delays treatment for patients who may have financial problems raising the funds to get the scans done in the private sector.

“Therefore, they have to wait inordinately long periods of time to raise the funds before they can get these scans, and that delays definitive treatment,” Dawes stressed.

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