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Are you listening Canada? Mobile clinic with testing and FibroScan!!
A mobile clinic unit which could help more people with hepatitis C live a disease-free future will be visiting Devonshire Green on Thursday January 26 and Hanfia Masjid mosque, 372 Sheffield Road, Tinsley on Friday January 27.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. If untreated, it can cause serious and life-threatening damage to the liver, including cirrhosis and liver cancer. However, big improvements in the way treatments are given have seen average cure rates rise to around 95%. Yet many people fail to attend clinic appointments to receive treatment. This is due to a wide range of reasons, including lack of information about new treatments. People have also requested care closer to home.
Now a team of experts from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be on hand in their mobile clinic unit from 9.30am to 4.30pm on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 January so that people can get tested, offered free advice and undergo a non-invasive FibroScan® to measure liver scarring (fibrosis).