I cannot believe the new health minister, Dwayne Seymour, has hinted the proposed mandatory register for cancer patients in the Cayman Islands may be resurrected.

And as for the disgraceful and disgusting comment from Opposition Leader Ezzard Miller asking Seymour if he had considered the idea of making cancer akin to a communicable disease. Then doctors would be required to report it without patient details, which would get round the public objection to a mandatory register.

Seymour implied then regardless of public opinion, the issue was back on the agenda.

Regardless of public opinion?

What about all of the people with cancer? At no time has their opinion been sought.

Public fears pertain to a lack of trust in the confidentiality of the register and fears the details would be acquired by and misused by health insurance firms.

A very BIG fear!

But Seymour dismissed public fears and saying the “public might not want it but the hospital and the ministry does”.

So he is re-examining the issue again without consulting any of the cancer patients.

The members of the board of the Cayman Islands Cancer Association not only did not address my question to them why cancer patients were not consulted I was informed ‘Why should they be?’

I can assure all of these people who know what is best for persons with cancer – THEY DON’T!

Cancer patients should have the rights to say whether they want their names on a cancer register and Miller CANCER IS NOT A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE!

I expect the next piece of legislation to be passed for our own good is cancer patients must walk around in public ringing a bell saying “UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!”

Shame on you Dwayne Seymour! And as for you Ezzard Miller Blankety Blank!!!!