CONTROVERSIAL proposals to overhaul maternity services along the Clyde coast have caused a storm of political protest.
Malcolm Chisholm, the health minister, has been urged to step into the row over sweeping changes to maternity care which would affect 800,000 women and children from Oban to Campbeltown...
But Frances Curran, the Scottish Socialist Party MSP for West of Scotland, accused the local health board of refusing to listen to the concerns of local people.
"These are life and death issues and local women and their unborn children will pay the price," she said. The Scotsman