Our health service’s announcement that its free medicines list determining body, headed by Dr Stefan Laspina, has approved some new immune system modulating anti-cancer drugs is very good news.
These drugs represent the advancing edge of anti-cancer therapy. They are expensive, but the quality of a health service is as good as the quality of its armamentarium.
Patients may have had to beg the President’s Community Chest Fund for help with financing their treatment with such drugs. The presidency shouldn’t be an extension of the health service. Well done to the Health Ministry for this most important and welcome update of its functions.