Vaccine credit

Colin Hamilton (Letters 19 January) says health professionals receive his "total and grateful support". What a pity he doesn't extend this gratitude and support to the health professionals, including administrators, who are working very hard to establish and service a comprehensive network of vaccination centres with a complementary booking system. What a pity his sense of personal injury precludes him from acknowledging that the mass vaccination centre at the Louisa Jordan Hospital is up and running and completed the vaccination of 5,000 health professionals on day one. What a pity he didn't feel able to give any credit to the Scottish Government for putting in place a strategy to prioritise care homes residents and staff and the over-80s and successfully carrying it through.

He can' t, because his principal purpose is to attack the government,which, for him, can do no right and he can't find it in himself to acknowledge the logistical challenge facing it.

He doesn' t wish to appear criticalof health professionals, but fails to acknowledge that a very large number of people from many professions are working incredibly hard to make us all safer and all deserve our gratitude.

GILL TURNER Derby Street, Edinburgh