Childhood cancer lobbyist, Ryan-Thomas Quinn, has released a statement in response to the Core Participant Closing Statements to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.
Ryan-Thomas said: “Today, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have finally admitted partial responsibility for the infected water scandal at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
“Unfortunately, this is information that I have believed in my heart to be true for some time. My best friend Aaron was in a children’s cancer ward in that very hospital in 2018. I remember absolutely vividly him describing his fear to me of the secrecy and panic that stunk out the atmosphere of that hospital. Millie Main was a leukaemia patient; in 2017, she was just 17 when she died of bacterial infection in the Queen Elizabeth. That infection came from the contaminated water supply in that hospital.
“To the board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, to former Scottish Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, and to former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who presided over this scandal, I have a very simple message: shame on you.
“And directly to you Ms. Sturgeon: as you complete your farewell tour around Scotland, flogging off signed copies of your book for £30 a pop, I hope the memory of the children with cancer that were killed by the dodgy tap water in that hospital, the hospital that your government presided over, and the scandal which your government knew about, I hope they absolutely haunt you.
Because let me be absolutely clear; even if you choose to forget, the history books will remember.”
-ENDS-
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