Sturgeon slammed by Christys for SNP’s record on healthcare

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The SNP has faced backlash over several new policies announced over the summer, including a move that will see pupils as young as for able to change the name and gender used to address them in school. GB News host Patrick Christys demanded Nicola Sturgeon re-focus her party’s attention on vital services, such as the dispatching of ambulances, rather than “virtue signalling.” Mr Christys said: “SNP Health Secretary Humza Yousaf absolutely stacked it when he fell off a scooter in Holyrood.

“It’s a metaphor for the SNP’s ability to run a country, I think. Humza Yousaf already appears to be injured but it’s a good thing he didn’t need an ambulance after he headbutted the floor because he might have had to wait 40 hours for it.

“That’s right, the SNP have called in the military to help rive ambulances. Whose military is that, out of interest? Yes, of course, it’s the UK’s, isn’t it?

“So not only can Scotland not run its own health service, an independent Scotland would presumably not be able to call on our armed forces to sort it out.

“I suppose they could just call the EU Army in when they inevitably rejoin the Brussels’ bloc but it’ll probably take them several years to arrive.”

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The GB News presenter continued: “I think I’d rather get ill in Eritrea than Edinburgh, to be honest – a man died after waiting 14 hours for an ambulance, there was a woman who waited eight hours with a fractured hip, an 86-years-old left lying on the floor eight hours and a man in Kilwinning who had to wait 23 hours for help.

“You just add this to the fact there are investigations underway into contaminated waters at Scottish hospitals, Europe’s worst addiction problem. For a while, Nicola Sturgeon was worse than any other UK leader in rolling out the vaccine as well.

“Meanwhile, Humza Yousaf, the actual Health Secretary, just seems to spend most of his time banging on about white people. And Nicola Sturgeon seems more focused on gender-neutral children than sick children.

“I very much doubt people of Scotland care more about pronouns than they do about their healthcare. While the SNP big wigs are busy virtue signalling, lots of people, frankly, are dying.”

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The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh President, Prof Michael Griffin, warned Scotland has “a real workforce problem in the NHS and in social care” that needs to be addressed and it is causing a “vicious circle” impacting all parts of the health service.

Prof Griffin said: “With the reduction in elective surgery in many of the health boards across Scotland, it’s not just Covid.

“It has a significant contribution, but there are other multiple factors involved and it’s quite a complex situation.

“We have staff absences from illness, recruitment, and isolation, such that we’re not able to staff certain areas.

“There’s a real problem with getting patients out of hospitals at the moment and into social care, because there is a care home workforce crisis which is causing issues and bed blocking.”

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During First Minister’s Questions on Thursday, Ms Sturgeon apologised to people who had endured long waits for ambulances, including the family of 65-year-old Gerald Brown, from Glasgow, who died while waiting 40 hours for treatment.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar urged Ms Sturgeon: “Please do not use the pandemic as cover for your Government’s failure,” as he described reports of people dying or being left in agony while waiting for ambulances as an “avoidable human tragedy”.

The First Minister replied: “I accept there were pressures on the ambulance service, as there were pressures on the entirety of our health service before this pandemic.

“But I do think anybody who suggests that the pandemic is not a significant contributory factor to what our health service is dealing with right now is stretching credibility.

“The pandemic has created the most challenging conditions for our National Health Service probably since the National Health Service was created and that is being felt acutely in Scotland.”

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