Mesh campaigners have criticised the Scottish Government for ignoring their concerns – only weeks after new First Minister Humza Yousaf said he would be “open” to meeting them. Patients blame surgical mesh products for leaving them disabled and in chronic pain, and want an independent review into the use of the products.
Campaigners had told how they had been denied multiple requests for meetings with Yousaf when he was Health Secretary. Then, during a Holyrood debate in January, he said he was “open to meeting” campaigners, which led to another request in February.
But they have now received another rejection letter. Scottish Global Mesh Alliance campaigner Roseanna Clarkin, who has been left with crippling pain after mesh was used on her umbilical hernia in 2015, has blasted the government for “ignoring” those affected by mesh procedures.
