Screening bus parked

A mobile screening program for cancer is being parked.

The Province has cut funding to run the Mobile Cancer Screening Coach that travels across the Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand and Brant local health integration network.

Running the bus costs more than $634,000 a year. The program not only screens for breast cancer, it also provides pap tests, colon screening kits and helps patients quit smoking.

The Hamilton Health Science Foundation has stepped up with funding to run the bus until the end of next March.