Please, minister, do what you promised and bring him here
Claire Daisley made a personal plea to Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman: Now let Dr Veronikis save the other meshdamaged women of Scotland.
She said: “I was facing losing two organs because NHS surgeons in Scotland do not have the skills to fully remove mesh.
“I’m living proof of the world-class surgery Dr Veronikis can perform.
“Despite being told I had undergone full mesh removal in Scotland, Dr Veronikis removed the two-thirds of the original implant which had been left inside me.
“The partial removal carried out in Scotland not only left me even more disabled and in worse pain, it also caused further internal trauma and tissue damage.
“Dr Veronikis managed to repair me because he has developed specialist techniques and has experience carrying out thousands of similar surgeries.
“He has offered to come to Scotland and treat mesh-injured women who are desperate and without hope of getting their lives back.
“I’m begging you, minister, stop playing games. Get Dr Veronikis here to help injured women before more of us are condemned to lives of crippling pain and anguish.”
Claire has spent almost 10 years struggling with life-changing injuries caused by mesh implants which have led to over £10 billion compensation payments in the US, and hundreds of thousands of court cases pending around the world.
She believes hundreds of Scottish meshinjured women deserve the chance to have the “miraculous” surgery she has had thanks to The Sunday Post and the supporters who funded her trip to the US.
Claire said: “The NHS must take responsibility for sorting out the damage inflicted because they wanted to ‘save’ £200 per operation by using mesh implants which have been shown repeatedly in court to be defective and cause harm.”