English: I've been contacted by a woman from the Rhondda whose 23-year-old daughter recently went through a health scare. After getting symptoms, she went for a blood test and, while at the clinic, she read information on a poster about cervical cancer and realised that she had all the symptoms that were described on that poster, bar one. When she told the doctor of her concerns, she was told that she couldn't have a smear test because she was under the age of 25. Now, this was in a week when all of us were being encouraged to go for our smear test, and she was told that she would have to wait until she was over 25 before she could have it. Such was the worry in the family about the symptoms that this young woman was displaying, they arranged an appointment with a gynaecologist at a private hospital the following morning. The woman and her family had a two-and-half-week anxious wait for those test results to come back, which thankfully were clear. Now, this family were lucky, they could afford to pay to go privately, but what if they didn't have the money for that private smear test? I agree with the mother of this woman when she said, 'If there is advertising of symptoms and someone displays those symptoms, surely it's common sense to investigate.' So, I'd like a statement on Government policy on this, and in that statement I want the health Minister to clarify what the Welsh Government policy is on the screening of women with symptoms of cervical cancer under the age of 25. Are there exceptions to the general age rule? And I also would like to know what mechanisms there are in place to reimburse this family for being forced to go privately in order to get the peace of mind that they should have been able to get through our NHS.
Welsh: Mae menyw o'r Rhondda wedi cysylltu â mi y mae ei merch sy'n 23 oed wedi dioddef bygythiad i'w hiechyd yn ddiweddar. Ar ôl cael symptomau, fe aeth am brawf gwaed, a phan yr oedd hi yn y clinig, fe ddarllenodd boster gwybodaeth am ganser ceg y groth ac fe sylweddolodd bod ganddi bob un o'r symptomau a ddisgrifiwyd ar y poster, namyn un. Pan ddywedodd hi wrth y meddyg am ei phryderon, fe ddywedodd y meddyg wrthi na châi hi brawf ceg y groth oherwydd ei bod hi o dan 25 oed. Nawr, roedd hyn yn ystod wythnos pan yr oedd pob un ohonom ni'n cael ein hannog i fynd am ein prawf ceg y groth, ac fe ddywedwyd wrthi y byddai'n rhaid iddi aros tan ei bod hi dros 25 oed cyn y gallai hi gael y prawf. Gymaint oedd y pryder yn y teulu am y symptomau yr oedd y fenyw ifanc hon yn eu harddangos, fel eu bod nhw wedi trefnu apwyntiad gyda gynecolegydd mewn ysbyty preifat y bore canlynol. Bu'r fenyw a'i theulu yn poeni am ddwy wythnos a hanner wrth ddisgwyl am ganlyniadau'r prawf, a oedd yn glir, diolch byth. Nawr, roedd y teulu hwn yn ffodus, roedden nhw'n gallu fforddio talu i fynd yn breifat, ond beth pe na byddai ganddyn nhw'r arian i gael prawf ceg y groth yn breifat? Rwyf yn cytuno â mam y fenyw hon pan ddywedodd hi, 'Os oes symptomau yn cael eu hysbysebu a bod rhywun yn arddangos y symptomau hynny, onid synnwyr cyffredin yw cael ymchwiliad?' Felly, fe hoffwn i gael datganiad ynghylch polisi'r Llywodraeth ar hyn, ac yn y datganiad hwnnw rwyf eisiau i'r Gweinidog iechyd egluro beth yw polisi Llywodraeth Cymru ar sgrinio menywod o dan 25 oed sydd â symptomau o ganser ceg y groth. A oes eithriadau i'r rheol oedran gyffredinol? Ac fe hoffwn gael gwybod hefyd pa fecanweithiau sydd ar waith i ad-dalu'r teulu hwn am eu bod nhw wedi cael eu gorfodi i fynd yn breifat er mwyn cael y tawelwch meddwl y dylen nhw fod wedi gallu ei gael drwy ein GIG.