YOU have published been several letters, including one from myself (September 30) regarding the closure of the cancer treatment unit at Stobhill Hospital thus necessitating patients from the north side of Glasgow requiring chemotherapy and radiotherapy to travel to the Beatson unit at Gartnavel Hospital.
I have a suggestion to make. Let the members of the committee which made this decision stand at a bus stop in Kirkintilloch on a wet Tuesday in December, take a bus into town, then another bus to the Gartnavel, walk down the long driveway, sit inside for an hour and then retrace their journey back to Kirkintilloch. There is no need for them to have any treatment, which often leaves patients feeling nauseous. The return journey will be enough for them to suffer and may possibly give them cause to rethink their decision.
I am aware that policy reversals are difficult for them to make but there did not appear to be any great difficulties in changing the proposed new name for the Southern General when they were informed that Her Majesty would do them the honour of opening it.
Jim Slavin,
Rosebank, Blackness, Linlithgow.
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