A row has broken out over pleas from NHS chiefs for residents to avoid the area’s A&E emergency department.
Labour’s Shadow Health Minister Paul O’Kane used Scottish Government health supremo’s statement to the Holyrood parliament on pandemic pressures on Thursday, to grill the Health Secretary over the latest stay away warning.
The politician said pleas to steer clear of emergency departments is leaving residents “between a rock and a hard place”, and pointed out that the under-pressure NHS 24 telephone service left 240,000 calls unanswered, figures show, between last September and January.
