A life-saving machine which detects skin cancer has been sitting idle for 15 months at Norfolk's largest hospital. The £50,000 Horus mole mapping machine was donated to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) in June 2023. The delay in the device being put to use comes as it was revealed a patient at the hospital waited 345 days for skin cancer treatment.
Wendy Evans, 80, donated the machine following the death of her son Neil, aged 48, in June 2021 after he had been diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. He died in Sydney, Australia, where he had lived since 2004. READ MORE: Mystery over death of couple, 69, killed in horror head-on crash Mrs Evans, who spearheaded the fundraising mission as a tribute to her son, is demanding answers as to why the device is not being put to use by health bosses.
Neil Evans, the first Norfolk person to play badminton for England, died in Australia in 2021. (Image: Supplied by family) "It is absolutely crazy that after our huge fundraising efforts, which saw many many people come together to donate or equally partake in our endeavours, the machine we bought after raising £50,000 is still sitting in its box," Mrs Evans said. "As a family we simply want answers, do the NNUH still want the machine, when do they plan to use it, and why has it taken so long? "If there isn't any clarity soon we will offer it to another hospital, my son was from Gorleston so it would be fitting if James Paget would accept the machine.
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