Glasgow Ebola Patient

[sivam]

FM / patient being tranferred to London. Had there been a YES vote what would have happened. Makes a nonsense of their desperation to leave the UK.

[anneasquith]

if there had been a yes vote,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, nothing would have changed as yet.

[DTCwordfan]

How moronic is this supposition - one of the most stupid of 2014?

[Svejk]

No need to be so rude, is there?

[Slapshot]

You appear to have a real downer on us north of the border Sivam....what's the problem???

[Dizmo]

Bloody southerners with their southern ways.

[sivam]

I am north of the border and wish to remain connected

[askyourgran]

As far as I'm aware the treatment/quarantine centre for ebola in the UK is in London. I would be desperate to have any ebola victims out of the UK, it only takes one to start it all off here.

[Pete65]

What does "tranferred" mean?
"Desperation"? The people of Scotland had a democratic vote.
Where is the " desperation" in that?

[Slapshot]

Yeah me too Sivam so why the rhetoric, it's a bit unnecessary really. In this case London is one of the regional centres for contagious disease control so even if Scotland didn't have it's own it's likely this person would have transferred anyway would have

[waterboatman]

Quite right slappy.

[murraymints]

what an utterly inane comment to make...lest this spreads to the rest of the UK immediate isolation in the appropriate environment is paramount !

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you think that had Scotland voted "yes" folk would not be treated outwith Scotland regardless of their condition if there were more appropriate facilities elsewhere? There are many instances of folk being treated outwith their own country but it does not reflect badly on that country's right to be an independent nation.

[waterboatman]

The patient is now in London. Arrived at the Royal Free Hospital in a RAF ambulance.

[ChillDoubt]

Must admit, every time I hear a story like this I am reminded of this picture:

http://memeguy.com/photos/images/someone-decided-to-bring-an-ebola-patient-to-be-treated-in-the-us-128450.jpg

[EDDIE51]

Daft question, even if Scotland was independent the patient would have been transferred to the best place for treatment. That place is where she is.

[Old_Geezer]

Regardless of how this issue is being used in this thread, it occurs to me that there really ought to be more than one treatment/quarantine centre in the UK. Ebola (or any other) patients taken to the nearest.

[jd_1984]

One could suggest that we (the UK) are equipped with sufficient cover for infectious diseases having a major centre in London. BUT an outbreak of Ebola or similar on an epidemic scale would really stretch resources. Old_Geezer I agree there could be more centres in various UK locations equipt to deal with this.

[ChillDoubt]

Sadly, her condition has deteriorated:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30666265