Calls For Return Of Colposcopy Procedures At Laois Hospital

Women in the county are being sent to either Galway or Dublin for the procedure.

Calls are being made for a service for women with a positive smear test to be returned to a Laois hospital.

The Colposcopy procedure was previously available in Regional Hospital Portlaoise, but now women are being sent to either Galway or Dublin.

Lorna Holohan Garry is a Sinn Féin Local Election Candidate in Borris in Ossory/ Mountmellick.

She says she wants to see a special clinic in the area for women's issues, also highlighting mammograms:

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