January 5.
The decision by the Receiver to sell the Health Care International
hospital in Clydebank to an Abu Dhabi consortium seems to have been
taken (January 4).
The price will be that of the bargain basement, probably about
one-fifth of the original cost, a goodly part of which was contributed
by British taxpayers from money allocated to the Secretary of State for
Scotland to be used for the benefit of Scotland.
This decision was justified by Tony Worthington, MP, on the basis that
the ''acute services strategy produced by Greater Glasgow Health Board
shows how impossible it would be to graft this hospital on to the NHS''
(January 4).
Why do not our local Labour MPs effectively challenge the GGHB on this
inflexible policy, a policy which will deny the people of Scotland an
up-to-date facility which is surely within their grasp? Instead, wealthy
people from the Middle East will enjoy this modern hospital while folks
around here have to accept less adequate hospital facilities.
Is this now official Labour Party policy? It would be appreciated if
Tony Worthington, or Sam Galbraith, or economist Alf Young would
explain, in some detail, why the policy now being followed is in the
best interest of our people.
Andrew R C Hamilton,
26 Forth Road,
Torrance.
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