A health campaigner who helped save her local A&E ward has spoken out after a "terrifying" 10-hour ordeal for treatment at the same hospital.
Councillor Sophia Coyle said her experience at Monklands Hospital, after complaining of chest pain, was so bad she would not go back if she fell ill again.
The mum-of-three also demanded the SNP -led Government get a grip on the soaring waiting times crisis. "You can’t just sit back and put blinkers on and say there’s a crisis," she told the Record. "The health service is a shambles just now, but through no fault of the staff.” Coyle, 46, was a long-standing SNP councillor in Airdrie who quit the party this year to sit as an independent on North Lanarkshire Council.
One of her first campaigns in politics was protecting the accident and emergency service at Monklands, but she has now sounded the alarm about the state of the facility she helped stop from being downgraded.
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