‘WE’LL CONTINUE CANCER MUM’S CAMPAIGN’

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THE family of a young woman who died from cervical cancer vowed to continue her advocacy work on the first anniversary of her death.

Young mum Eileen Rushe received “heartfelt apologies” and an undisclosed sum from the HSE at the High Court last March for failings in her care at Louth County Hospital.

She died on September 28, 2021, at the age of 35.

Eileen’s family vowed to continue her advocacy work on women’s health issues on the first anniversary of her death.

Eileen, from Termonfeckin, Co Louth, campaigned to increase the uptake of the HPV vaccine for boys and girls when she was terminally ill.

Her sister Siobhain said Eileen would want her family to continue her advocacy work.

Website

Siobhain revealed Eileen intended to start a website to provide women with a platform to discuss all topics and issues affecting them — and she is determined to see it through.

Siobhain said: “We wanted to start a female empowerment site to allow women to talk about everything affecting them.

“It was Eileen’s idea and we were going to add research and podcasts with health experts.

“I’m hoping to get the strength in the coming months to start it in her memory and part of that will be to continue pushing the HPV vaccine for teenage girls and boys.

“I’m so proud of her that she was still so selfless that she really wanted to prevent other people in the world from going through what our family did and so she became a champion of the vaccine.”

Eileen was diagnosed with stage three cancer in December 2018 — despite being monitored for 18 months when abnormal cells showed up during a routine smear test in 2017. She was cancer-free in June 2019 but the cancer returned and spread across organs.