Mesh campaigners claim Humza Yousaf has 'refused' requests to meet group

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Mesh campaigners claim Health Secretary Humza Yousaf refused to meet them to hear their concerns. Patients blame surgical mesh products for leaving them disabled and in chronic pain and want the Scottish Government to hold an independent review into the use of the products.However, following a debate in the Scottish Parliament earlier this month, the Health Secretary denied their request.Campaigner Roseanna Clarkin, of the Scottish Global Mesh Alliance, said Yousaf has refused several requests for meetings with campaigners spanning nearly two years.

Roseanna, who has been left with crippling pain after mesh was used on her umbilical hernia in 2015, has blasted him for “ignoring” those affected by mesh procedures.

The 39-year-old, from Clydebank, said: “The Health Secretary has not been willing to meet with us and that says it all. It’s ignorance at its best. “I’ve had meetings with former health secretaries Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman as well as Scotland’s former chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood, who all listened to our concerns. “However, since Humza Yousaf became Health Secretary in May 2021, I’ve never had a meeting.

We have been trying to have a face-to-face meeting with him for nearly two years so we can properly explain how mesh has affected us, how dangerous it really is and why it needs to be suspended. “He hasn’t been willing to meet us at all despite our repeated requests. ”From the late 90s until 2018, women in Scotland were treated with polypropylene mesh implants for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.