In a story clearly too big for their health correspondent, the Herald’s Chief Reporter, announces:
JEANE Freeman has given Glasgow health chiefs one last chance to improve despite condemning their performance, as we reveal the deaths of two more young patients. The Health Secretary’s remarks come after a further two children died at the facility while being treated in paediatric intensive care – the same ward that a young patient passed away on November 25.
In Daily Mail style, the deaths of two children are exploited for cheap shock effect. To ask the obvious, is this a ‘spike’ of some kind? Were no deaths expected at all in a ward for very ill children or is this just the tragically normal level? Were they killed by an infection for which the hospital can be blamed or were they, as with all the earlier much covered cases, killed by other factors with hospital acquired infections no more than, perhaps, contributory factors caused by, perhaps, water-borne bacteria, ‘from’ perhaps, pigeon droppings, perhaps?
In the light of the above and the recently announced legal case against the contractors, by the board, why on earth might the Health Secretary think that the board should be sacked rather than helped to deal with the situation?
Why on earth do the Scottish media constantly foreground Jeanne Freeman while their equivalents elsewhere in the UK never ever blame politicians for far worse crises in the NHS?
I know.
Finally, whose ‘anger’ is this? One or two parents shamelessly tricked by opposition politicians into believing that their children should not have died?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Modern day ‘journalism’ in Scotland – what a way to make a living??
Even as they distort the truth they know damn well that if they, or members of their families fall sick they will be treated to world-class care and attention by our NHS.
It seems we have a deficiency in natural justice in Scotland.
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Scotland has been stripped out of journalists over the last three decades. The few who are left are petrified for their livelihoods and have succumbed to pressure from their British nationalist controllers.
But…….while that “might” be excusable in print journalism, for BBC staff to be so biddable is a disgrace to their professionalism, and their wider, public duty to honest, fair reporting of the facts—without favour or bias.
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