Women shouldn’t have to turn online to get their healthcare needs met

When healthcare systems were designed, women’s needs weren’t prioritised (Picture: Gaby Ekaireb)One day when I was a medical student, on placement in a gynaecology clinic, a woman came in in tears.
She was so embarrassed she found it difficult to explain what the problem was. Eventually, she described how she’d found a ‘lump in her underwear’ and had cried every day believing she was the only person in the world to have such a problem.
The lump had seriously impacte