Smith supports the Sick Kids Hospital Campaign

20/12/07

Margaret Smith MSP has pledged her support for the campaign to keep Children’s cancer services at Edinburgh’s Sick Kids Hospital. The services at the Hospital are under threat as a result of proposals to centralise all cancer services in one or two centres in Scotland.

Commenting, the Edinburgh West MSP said:

“The Sick Kids provides a number of vital services to families in Edinburgh and I think it is crucial that cancer services are available locally for very vulnerable children, to allow them to remain near their families when receiving treatment.

“I will be doing all I can to support the campaign to keep cancer services at the Sick Kids Hospital, and along with colleagues I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health to urge her to put a stop to the centralisation proposals and allow the Sick Kids to continue its good work for children with cancer.”