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Note from PSOE:

Not perform breast palpation, although women demand it.

Young people are not informed or women who have not had sex.

The revisions do not have annual gynecological and difficult to detect cancer of the breast, uterus and ovary.

Mari Carmen Tristant report health risk for women in Sewell.

Socialist Councillor Mari Carmen Tristant, has claimed that "the shortcomings of the Family Planning Center are endangering the health of many women from Sewell."

In particular, Mari Carmen Tristant notes:

Women can not go on its own initiative the Centre for Family Planning, but must be filed by the family doctor.

The center does not provide information to young people, so there is no place to go to look for

The facility did not care for women who have had sex previously.

Regarding the tests carried out:

The gynecologist visits are only once a week or ten days.

Mammograms are not younger than 50 years.

Not perform breast palpation, although women demand it.

After the second year, the following cytology is not indicated until after three or five years.

Mari Carmen Tristant, "is risking the health of women, making early detection of breast cancer, uterine and ovarian cancer, three diseases whose incidence in Sewell is well above the national average, as it reveals "Atlas of Cancer, published by the Instituto Carlos III of Madrid.

"Health authorities recommend annual reviews, because early detection is the best weapon we have against cancer.

However, the Family Planning Center Sewer has no staff to provide this service, and women are forced to go to your gynecologist area, but appointments are being delayed, "said a spokeswoman for Equality Group Socialist.

Therefore, the councilor has asked the Municipal Council "that the City provide the Centre for sufficient staff to meet the women of the county, so that they can practice the annual gynecological examinations recommended by health authorities."

Source: Grupo Socialista, Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla