Surgeon withdraws Scots mesh help offer

A Missouri-based surgeon has withdrawn an offer to help Scottish women left suffering after vaginal mesh surgery for a“second and final time” after becoming“exasperated” by the Scottish Government.

Dr Dionysios Veronikis had previously offered to travel to Scotland from the US to perform complex mesh removal operations on women.

But in a letter to health secretary Jeanne Freeman, he said this has now been “permanently withdrawn” as he claimed his “good will has been abused”.

Dr Veronikis said he had previously withdrawn an offer to travel to Scotland but had been “given assurances by the First Minister of Scotland and I came back on board”. But he added: “Regretfully, promises made to me by the appointed officials were not delivered.”