Danyel VanReenen, Local Democracy Reporting Service, on the concerns over the delays in funding for a new health centre in Lochgelly, which sparked a well attended public meeting this week.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Michelle Hurd, practice manager at Meadows GP and three of her employees were among the more than 130 people who attended MSP Alex Rowley's public meeting on Tuesday to demand a new community health centre.
00:12 The building that we're in now is terrible, it's awful. It's not fit for purpose. It hasn't been fit for purpose in years.
00:19 A long time now.
00:20 Since it was built.
00:21 A very, very long time.
00:23 We've been getting reassured for years and nothing's happened so until we see a positive build in the land around there then it's just all hearsay.
00:32 It's contagious.
00:33 Winter time the staff are frozen, the EFTM halls, the doctors are frozen, the nurses are frozen. I wouldn't like to be a patient going into the room.
00:42 Summer time, we're cooked. We are absolutely cooked today.
00:46 I just started in February and what I see with practice is you continuously go and you're waiting for patients.
00:53 Continuously and so do the doctors.
00:55 Who would want to go into a building like that? Who would want to be employed?
01:00 I was quite happy to be employed, I was quite happy. I'm joking because the staff are lovely and everybody's brilliant and the doctors are brilliant.
01:07 But who would want to walk into that building and be employed there? It's only doctors.
01:11 It's just...