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PETER HAMILTON: Could I just check
GLEN COOK: I was admitted to the RAH
overnight on the 1 st of October. I was lucky to go that night
because the night before both the Vale and Paisley were closed,
no beds. Where I would have gone I don’t know and I’m also
one that said I would never go to Paisley but I eat my words on
that because I couldn’t have had better attention, emergency
attention and the thing is the ambulance, I had to wait two and
a half hours from the Vale to go to Paisley, there was no
ambulances.
When I got to Paisley and had my problem
sorted I was put in the coronary care department and we got an
infection in that ward. Now we didn’t know for two days that
there was an infection until somebody came and said – oh this
is the ward that’s infected. None of the patients knew about it,
we still don’t know what the infection was but for three days
people weren’t allowed in the ward and we were told that the
cleaning services had been cut so the cleaners could only clean
one room at a time and that had caused the infection.
I still haven’t heard why I was taken in,
what it was, but if they had sent me to the Shetland Islands I
would have been happy just to get – but the parking at the
RAH, you say it’s good for parking, the parking at the RAH
there was people had to miss half of the visiting times because