“I am afraid that, in the past 24 hours, 12 deaths of patients who had been confirmed as having the virus have been registered. That takes the total number of deaths in Scotland under that measurement to 2,434.”
Month: June 2020
MoD PAID £1m RENT FOR HOUSES THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN KNOCKED DOWN
The international peace group, Pax Christi, campaigns for military spending to be diverted to healthcare and sustainability. “How galling then to hear of public resources being wasted on this scale by the Ministry of Defence,” said the group’s director, Theresa Alessandro.
HYPOCRITES – BAILLIE CALLS OUT SNP OVER TESTING
The Scottish Government has not only consistently failed to meet its own Scotland-wide testing targets, but six out of the eleven health boards in Scotland are in special measures – meaning that the Scottish Government has intervened to run them directly.
CARERS WEEK HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES FACED BY THEM
West Dunbartonshire’s carers celebrated during National Carers Week
HEALTH SECRETARY TAKES A PASTING OVER COVID
Mr Briggs revealed that surgeons have warned that a fifth of the patients who were treated for broken hips in March and April have gone on to contract Covid-19 while in hospital, “and all of that is happening at a time when only a third of our testing capacity is being used.
SNP AUSTERITY WAS REAL REASON FOR HOSPITAL BED BLOCKING
So why is it that only one-in-five Covid patients taken to intensive care was over 70? Why were patients sent to care homes untested? And why were those who then became ill not taken from that care home to be treated in all those vacant intensive care beds, instead of being left to die?