Volunteers honoured

YOUNG Dundee volunteers are among those who have been honoured for their work by NHS Tayside.

Saltire Awards have been presented by the health board to Mariana Khoury, Ruqaiyuah Hussein, Nyorin I slam, Sasha Mackay, Gregor Angus, Marcel Al-Horoub, Faiza Mohammed, Amy McCoy and Kerin Waterston.

NHS Tayside volunteers aged 16-25 can sign up to win an award for completing a cer tain number of hours.

Voluntary services manager Val Ewan said: “Congratulations to everyone who has received a Saltire Award.” HUNDREDS of Dundee learners had a spring in their step after completing their path towards higher education.

More than 200 attendees of the Access and Online Summer School were honoured for completing the six-and-a-half week programme.

The programme provided intensive preparation and alternative routes into degree courses for students whose true academic potential is often masked by circumstance.

Course director Dr John Blicharski praised the opportunities the programme provided. A MAN has complained to watchdogs after Tayside doctors botched surgery on his anus – by operating on the wrong side.

The patient went to Ninewells Hospital l ast year to have an abscess to the left of the orifice drained of pus.

But after the surgery he found surgeons had operated on the right side – and left the painful growth opposite untouched.

Staff had attempted to reassure the man that the surgery had gone ahead as planned.

But he had the error confirmed by his GP a few days after the surgery and complained that surgeons had “operated on the wrong side of (my) anus”.

Investigators at watchdog the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) took up the case of the man, named only as Mr C, after he was dissatisfied with how the health board had handled his complaint.

They found that there was “confusion” over the position of the abscess in his medical records which led to the ambiguity.