Scotland’s Public and Women’s Health minister insists she wants mums to feel “they are having good care as close to home as possible”.
Maree Todd visited Stranraer on Monday to meet Galloway Community Hospital Action Group which is pushing for maternity services to be restored in the west of the region.
Local politicians also met Ms Todd to lobby for the Clenoch Birth Centre at the Stranraer hospital to be reopened after it closed in 2018 due to a staffing shortage.