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NICOLA Sturgeon, Cabinet Secretary for health and wellbeing officially opened the new Community Casualty Unit at Campbeltown Hospital on Monday.
By redesigning part of the hospital and adding on a new entrance complete with ambulance canopy patients are now treated in a much larger and better equipped department, compared to the original, far smaller premises.
The new unit has two consulting rooms and a four-bed resuscitation bay which will allow staff to care for multiple casualties simultaneously.
Ms Sturgeon took time to tour the entire hospital and talk to staff and patients alike and was very impressed with all she saw.
‘Being distant from other population centres, the hospital and the services it provides are extremely important to the whole of the Kintyre Peninsula,’ she said.
Garry Coutts, chairman of NHS Highland chairman who showed the minister round said: ‘This £300,000 investment is good news for the people of Campbeltown and beyond. It is also really important that in remote and rural communities such as Kintyre the general public have access to a high quality casualty service with experienced local GPs and nursing staff on hand.’
