First Minister must sack health board
THE Queen Elizabeth Hospital eventually opened after a long, long delay on July 3, 2015, at a cost we were told was £842 million. The media reported one month later cracks started to appear on this building. Then further problems started, raw sewage leaks leading to operations being cancelled, laundry list of problems including cladding being removed in December 2017 due to similarities with material used in the doomed Grenfell Towers. A glass panel crashing 10 floors from the hospital in 2018.
In January 2019, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board was badly criticised in the report commissioned by Jeane Freeman for not being transparent about the serious problems with the building and possible links to infectious disease.
In March 2019 the media reported £50m was needed for this troubled hospital. Media has since reported ventilation systems are not the correct size, there are safety alarm failures. Five of the eight plant rooms supplying water to the rest of the hospital marked as “high risk” also highlighted the presence of pipework “dead legs” where water can stagnate.
Two deaths contracted cryptococcus fungal infection, we were told this can be linked to pigeon droppings which was causing great concern.
Recently 23 senior clinicians from this hospital have expressed their immense frustration in a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Cabinet Secretary Humza Yousaf, they are disappointed that individual patients are being discussed in Parliament without the knowledge of the families concerned causing distress to families already grieving the loss of their loved ones.
I want to know what exactly will it take for Nicola Sturgeon to sack the relevant people concerned? What will it take for her to acknowledge the serious of this ongoing problem that will not go away until she addresses this? Everyone seems to recognise this except her, what exactly is her problem.
I think now Caroline Shaw CBE chief executive along with her eight executive directors and her seven non-executive directors should now be held totally responsible for the complete and utter shambles that is still happening at this hospital under their watch, which is still causing so much distress to all patients concerned.
EK Crookston
SCOTRAIL is reviewing its policy of allowing e-scooters to be carried on trains. This issue has been raised following e-scooter lithium battery fires at two London railway stations. In England ambulance call-outs to deal with e-scooter injuries exceed 840. Only a third of ambulance trusts provided data so the incidents could be well above 2000.
E-scooters are illegal on Scotland’s roads and pavements so why are the owners carrying them? They will get on their e-scooter and ride on Scottish roads and pavements endangering themselves and the public.
Police Scotland are doing absolutely nothing despite numerous complaints. The Scottish Government should declare that, regardless of what England does, these lethal machines will never be allowed on Scottish roads and pavements. Now that would show independence.