The Breast Screening Programme is planning to lobby insurance companies early in the new year to cover the most of the costs of reconstructive surgeries done on breast cancer patients.
Dr Shirley Jhagroo, medical coordinator of the programme, said that with an increasing number of younger women, under 40 years old, being diagnosed with breast cancer in recent years, it was important that insurance companies cover 80 per cent of the costs of the surgery to reconstruct the breast, in the same way that this is done for other surgical procedures.
She said that currently, companies viewed these surgeries as cosmetic.
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