The Ministry of Health is working assiduously to improve the time taken to diagnose cancer and a major move this year will be that of telepathology which will allow remote visualizing of images on a video monitor rather than viewing a specimen through a microscope.
Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony at the ministry’s year-end press conference relayed that they had been able to upgrade the country’s cancer registry where “we now have more accurate data and we have been tracking and trying to get and improve the data collection.”
He said that in 2023 they were able to achieve a turnaround time as it relates to diagnostics. “In the past it used to be that in some cases when we take a biopsy it probably takes about three months sometimes longer for people to get back the results” leaving patients feeling anxious as they await the results.