Sisters heart transplant gift of life
Allison Kerr received a heart transplant last year – and elder sibling Karen Owens now needs the same lifesaving operation.
Allison Kerr, left, has received a heart transplant and sister Karen Owens now needs the same operation (Image: Contributed/Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser)
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Today, I want to speak to you about Scotland’s National Health Service.
Like so many of you, the COVID crisis has caused me to reflect on what I value most in life.
It has also reinforced for me the fact that politics must be about making a positive difference to people’s lives.
That is all that matters.
Over the last year I know you won’t have agreed with every decision that I and the SNP government have taken.
And we certainly haven’t got every decision right.
But we have given total commitment to the task of keeping Scotland as safe as possible – of saving lives, protecting health and safeguarding our NHS.
NICOLA Sturgeon has set out her party’s plan for a “full-scale post-pandemic remobilisation of the NHS” after the Covid-19 crisis. In a speech, the SNP leader said the health service is at the “heart” of their plan to bring about a better future for Scotland. Sturgeon issued a warning over “creeping privatisation” in England, saying the SNP have an “unwavering and absolute commitment to a publicly owned National Health Service that delivers care free at the point of use”. She warned that the UK Government has passed a new law giving Tory ministers the right to subject NHS services to “market access” principles, and that post-Brexit immigration laws will make recruiting staff more difficult.
A GREENOCK woman who is waiting for a heart transplant hopes a change in the law will save her life. Emma Carney has welcomed the hugely significant decision to move to an opt-out system for organ donations in Scotland. The 37-year-old, who suffers from a life-threatening heart condition and nearly died last year, was placed on the transplant list almost five months ago. Emma, of Fife Road, said: I think the opt-out system is a really positive step. It could make a huge difference to me and others like me. I want to do all I can to raise awareness of the desperate need for organ donors.
Scots mum told she could be infertile after deadly cancer diagnosis gives birth to baby boy
Aylee Smith was just 23 when doctors told her she had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and said her cancer was so aggressive there was no time to save her eggs and warned her she would likely never have children.
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A Scots woman who was told she would likely never have children after being diagnosed with cancer at just 23, has given birth to a baby boy.