Clydebank Post | Opinion | Hospice not consulted

Monday, 13th October, 2008

Published: Wednesday, 4th June, 2008 09:50

Hospice not consulted

Regarding the letter “Accept hospice decision” (28/05/08) – shame on you whoever you are.

If you are going to make broad, sweeping, inaccurate statements on a subject you clearly know absolutely nothing about, you should at least have the courage to put your name to it.

I am sure with even your limited amount of intelligence you can appreciate that one can only have a “reasoned argument” if they are given the opportunity to speak.

Until now, as the health board chief executive himself admitted at the health board meeting in April the hospice was not consulted. Even now, the hospice is not being consulted — it is being pushed around and bullied.

If indeed you have written to the Health secretary and received such a comprehensive response, then you must be very special indeed as not even the Petitions Committee of the Scottish Government, nor any of the cross-party MSPs supporting the hospice, have been able to get anything so conclusive from Nicola Sturgeon.

I would not even comment on any of the derogatory statements made regarding Sister Rita — I sincerely hope she will deal with that herself.

Whether you like it or not little anonymous person, 90,000 people who are willing to stand up and be counted cannot be wrong. What right do you have to completely discount the overwhelming support of the hospice and of Sister Rita and her staff?

I am afraid you don’t get to “cut through” it just because you don’t like it.

Dianne Ferguson, Yoker

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