Frustration over hurdles faced at local health centre

REGARDING Dr Punan Krishan’s column on September 18 in the Glasgow Times – I have no reason to doubt her version of how her health centre operates but I can assure her that this is not the case in my local health centre.

The only way to contact it is by phone which is difficult in the extreme because it is frequently engaged and even on getting through it is difficult to get past a receptionist.

The only way of getting attention is to be unpleasant which is not in most people’s nature.

I myself have twice had problems with automated repeat subscription service which also can be engaged.

I am not exaggerating when I say that most people I know are not satisfied with the service and feel that the GP practices have abandoned them.

People who have been attended to feel that they had a lot of hurdles to get to the end result.

Health centres have been shut now for some three months now and the people who work in them are at large under the same rules as the general public, so why are we not allowed in the health centres?

My daughter is a theatre nurse and has been working all through the pandemic with appropriate precautions of course.

And incidentally we were clapping on Thursdays to support and still do all the doctors surgeons’ anesthetists nurses and other support staff who were wearing PPE up for up to 10 hours treating Covid- ill or Covid- positive patients who needed treatment.

Also people on the frontline in transport and essential services shops etc not people at the end of a phone.

JM

Kilsyth

WHY does First Minister Nicola Sturgeon not move the coronavirus students into the Louisa Jordan hospital? Surely this would protect other students living in the same accommodation.

FMK

East Kilbride

THE MSP Margaret Ferrier was wrong in her actions and will have to pay the consequences.

However, the pious hypocrisy from Labour and Tory politicians is unbelievable as they try to take the moral high ground.

They need to look at themselves and why they kept their heads down when certain others did exactly the same and kept their jobs.

MA

Glasgow

WITH the growth of working from home, it is only a matter of time until someone given a short prison sentence requests to work from jail.

Are we right to let short- term prisoners keep their jobs by jailworking, or is losing their job through absenteeism part of their punishment? And is this unfair on bluecollar workers who cannot work from home? Twenty- first century problems eh? Barry Tighe

Via email

I STILL fail to understand how the 10pm curfew is supposed to help curb the spread of coronavirus.

The scenes that I’ve seen on the TV and in the newspapers over the last week just show that it will not work.

More people will be gathering to get the last bus or a taxi home at 10pm, sparking the chance of the virus spreading.

At least before people would head home from a night out at different times.

I’m afraid what is going to be announced by the government in order to stop Covid spreading across the country.

Ministers have to be sensible and take action that will actually work.