ROTTEN & FAILING

LABOUR LEADER ATTACKS YOUSAF OVER HEALTH BOARD | Sarwar demands FM sacks the leadership of flagship hospital deluged by scandals

- CHRIS MCCALL

THE culture at the "failing" health board responsible for a scandal-hit super-hospital is "rotten", it was claimed yesterday.

First Minister Humza Yousaf was urged to condemn the actions of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) which runs the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar challenged Yousaf "to do the right thing" and sack the board.

Sarwar called the board's actions "disgusting" after the Record revealed a communications director was alleged to have told her staff a concerned parent "won't win the war" after he raised concerns in the media.

A whistleblower, who we agreed not to name, said Sandra C Bustillo made the remark more than once after Professor John Cuddihy spoke publicly about his daughter Molly's case

Cancer patient Molly fell ill at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus and went into septic shock - a life-threatening condition which happens when blood pressure drops to a dangerously low level after an infection.

Molly was diagnosed with mycobacterium chelonae, an infection in her line which came from the hospital environment.