AN Anniesland surgeon who walked through the snow for almost three hours to carry out an operation on a cancer patient has been called a “superwoman”.

Patient Iain McAndrew hailed the efforts consultant surgeon Lindsey Chisholm went to make it to the RAH in Paisley in the middle of the red alert earlier this month.

Miss Chisholm told BBC Scotland she “didn’t think it was a big deal”.

She had realised on February 28 as the red alert broke she’d not be able to drive back to the hospital the next day and decided to walk it via the Clyde Tunnel.

Miss Chisholm said: “I do a bit of winter walking and I’ve got decent equipment and clothing and a pair of snow-shoes so I thought I could walk to work.

“I got up early on Thursday morning, saw there was quite a lot of snow but it didn’t look impossible.”

She added her biggest concern was whether someone would be in the control box for the tunnel to open the pedestrian access gates.

A total of five operating theatres ran on the Thursday thanks to the number of staff who made it in, and Miss Chisholm performed a second surgery after Mr McAndrew’s colon cancer operation.

She added: “I didn’t think it was a big deal. I had the right equipment, I knew there was no avalanche risk, I was not going to get lost. There were places I could stop on the way if the weather did become absolutely terrible so I just didn’t think anything of it.”

Mr McAndrew told the BBC he was convinced the surgery wouldn’t go ahead.

He said: “When she walked in my heart took a wee jump. I thought it was amazing. If there is a real-life superwoman, she is it.

“She told me my operation would be on, which made me a very happy chappy.

“It felt like a Christmas Day because she came in with all her winter stuff on and she told me she had walked in from her home.

“I couldn’t believe she’d walked nearly eight miles to do surgery on me.

“She’s a very nice person and I hope people applaud what she has done for me and what she has done for the NHS to prove that the good people work for the NHS.”