My girl deserves answers
A mother has been left dangling in the hope of winning a probe into her daughter’s botched birth.
Government chiefs had appeared to perform a u- turn after we told how Elaine Pringle was shunned from a review into Crosshouse maternity unit.
Her daughter, Rebecca, was left brain damaged in 2011 with an independent report blaming medics.
But the devastated mum, who has so far been denied answers by the NHS, has now been told she may be sidelined after all.
A team at Heathcare Improvement Scotland is investigating Crosshouse – but this week said Elaine’s participation is “still to be confirmed”.
Rebecca suffered a foetal haemorrhage at birth and was left with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She is also confined to a wheelchair.
Medics had predicted the five- year- old wouldn’t survive a week after birth, but she has confounded that prognosis.
Elaine, 26, said: “The whole thing has been a nightmare from start to finish.
“It feels like they’re only bothering with me because this has hit the newspapers.
“I’m getting Shona Robison’s office writing to tell me I’m part of the review – yet the team from HIS don’t seem to think so.”
NHS whistleblower and former nurse, Rab Wilson, said: “Elaine has been through enough trauma since the birth and yet she’s enduring even more here.
“The left hand evidently doesn’t know what the right hand is doing when it comes to the Scottish Government and HIS.
“Just who is running our health service?”