Surgeon Dr Hector Chawla OBE says scrapping a new hospital and dispersing services is 'a step back into the dark ages '- your views online

Gordon Brown and and Dr Hector Chawla Picture: Alex Hewitt/Writer Pictures

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Celebrated surgeon Dr Hector Chawla OBE says scrapping a new hospital and dispersing services is 'a step back into the dark ages'

Wendy Goodall

Well done to this man for speaking out, it's a cost cut too far! Sight, a vital sense that most will take for granted until something happens. Like me and many others, you then totally appreciate this units expertise and ease of public travel to it. This needs to remain as a world class specialist unit, in a central location, doing fantastic work, teaching and research.

Glyn Ednie

The Scottish government’s recent order and purchase of £500,000 worth of EU flags, so that one can be flown from every public building in Scotland, is wasteful gesture politics. Penny-pinching in all the wrong directions.

Jacqueline McCraw

SNP are happy to spend £2 million on an independence campaign but nae cash for an eye hospital … and fools still support them!

Ali Bryson

I didn't realize we wanted centralisation, I thought local services were a good idea.

Toni Edwards

The government don’t care what the people want or need, it’s about what they want and what they think. we need

Maggi Kirkpatrick

I worked with him for a while. Superb eye surgeon.

Rosie Sime

I am getting really annoyed with the government thinking they can do what they want to our NHS services. We are the Scottish capital, we should be able to have a say in where our resources are going not them. They moved the Sick Kids cleft palate hospital to Glasgow, which was bad enough. If they didn't spend much needed cash on frivolous things then we would be able to keep the Eye Pavilion here. It’s an absolute disgrace. I have had operations there and I definitely wouldn't want to go anywhere else. So many people are going to feel the same. It boils my blood to think they are even considering this move.

June Spoonie Myles

He's standing with Gordon Brown. The red Tories would have you paying at the point of service for your health care.

Robert Howlieson

Of course it is… they have wasted it on the Sick Kids fiasco.

Coronavirus in Scotland

Two fined after police break up '11-a-side' football game in an Edinburgh park

Paul Clarkson

Amazing, the police can send a squad of officers to a park to break up a game of football, but are always too understaffed to send someone when your house is being burgled or van broken into.

Stephen Allison

People have had enough; 25% of people in Scotland have been vaccinated so the government say. The most vulnerable have been protected so the chances of dying from Covid must be very small now in the younger age groups. Time the government cared about the younger generation now. Let them all back to school. Let them see their friends. . This lockdown has gone too far now – 823 cases today and 29 deaths from the whole of Scotland with a population of 5.5 million.

Catherine Dennington Fee

It's very sad that kids can't go and play football, but privileged football teams can fly to other countries and hug and kiss each other covered in sweat, come back on flights but don't get enough done to them that would hit their pockets. Go play, kids and enjoy life.

Steven Laidlaw

Another of the crazy inconsistent things that happen during this so-called lockdown. Kids can't play organised sports outside but obesity is killing or costing the country fortunes. But I can go to a busy supermarket indoors because it's essential... good luck to them.

Alessandro Cennerazzo

Well done to the lads getting fresh air. Embarrassing for people reporting. Saughton Park today was full. Mental health is well more important than this.

Michael Crawford

It’s just a shame for the kids. They are being punished for what would normally be doing nothing wrong This hell needs to end for them soon before young mental health goes through the roof or they actually become real criminals!

Richard Skedd

So they ignored the students who played every Wednesday in the Meadows, who also had people on the sidelines watching. They seem to be very selective whom they chooses to approach.

John Robertson

A group of a dozen or so youths were wreaking havoc in Musselburgh for several weeks, assaulting people, damaging property. It took three weeks for the police to do something about it.