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I wonder if he'd get the same fobbing regardless of the pandemic. A misdiagnosis is hard work to overturn -
An Excess Death...
This one is blamed on Covid. However, if you are young and get cancer you have often have to fight to be believed.
COVID-19: Father-of-two dies of cancer after MRI scan 'delayed' by coronavirus crisis | UK News | Sky News
A father-of-two, who had to "keep begging" for an MRI scan because of the pandemic, has died of cancer, his family have revealed.
Sherwin Hall, 27, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, went to hospital on 23 March suffering from leg pain, but despite repeated visits he was only given a course of antibiotics for a misdiagnosis of prostatitis.
After "begging for a scan" and 13 hospital visits in four weeks, Mr Hall was finally given an MRI on 26 May.
It revealed a 14cm malignant tumour in his pelvis and 30 small tumours on his lungs. He died last week.
Before he passed away Mr Hall said: "I kept begging them in April and May to give me an MRI scan but no one would listen.
"Both my GP and my consultant told me that I couldn't get one because scanning services were slowed down because of the coronavirus."
His widow LaTroya Hall, who is being supported by the Catch Up With Cancer Campaign, said: "I am devastated. I have lost the love of my life.
"If Sherwin's cancer had been found earlier it is likely he would still be here today.
"He would want me to do everything I can to prevent other families suffering as we have.
"It worries me that the government and NHS leaders continue to say cancer services are back to normal; our family's experience has been that, even now, this is simply not the case.
"Even if services were back at pre-pandemic levels that is not enough. The cancer backlog also needs to be cleared.
"The government and NHS leaders need to treat this as the crisis it is and urgently boost services so the NHS can Catch Up With Cancer."
Mr Hall's death comes as cancer patients, celebrities and NHS staff have launched a Christmas video as part of a campaign calling on the government to boost cancer services "devastated" by the COVID-19 crisis.
The Catch Up With Cancer campaign was launched by the parents of Macclesfield beautician Kelly Smith who died after her treatment for bowel cancer was stopped because of the pandemic.
A petition launched by her family has nearly 400,000 signatures.
Cancer charity MacMillan says the backlog of cancer patients from the first lockdown is 50,000, while there might be double the number of patients from the second lockdown.
Co-founder of the campaign, and chairman of Action Radiotherapy, Professor Pat Price said: "For anyone experiencing cancer right now it must be truly frightening.
"Frontline staff are working heroically to catch up with the backlog, but they simply can't do more than the massive effort they are already putting in.
"Without help and investment from government, we are looking at a national tragedy."
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