Families worried sick about the health of a loved one should not have to contact a national newspaper to get life-saving treatment.
Catherine Rae has ovarian cancer and she needs to have surgery to prevent it spreading to her major organs. The aggressive form of the disease she has means cells grow quickly and her oncologist, clearly concerned about her welfare, told her family to seek private care if they could afford it because she could not guarantee when Catherine would get her operation.
But the operation costs around £26,000 - more than the yearly family income - which menat the increased worry and strain on the family was incredible. Fortunately health chiefs saw sense after the Daily Record got involved and Catherine will get her operation on the NHS next week.
