Up to 68 ambulance journeys a month were recorded transporting children from St John's Hospital in Livingston to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital while 24/7 operation of the West Lothian children's ward was suspended.
HEALTH Secretary Jeane Freeman has been challenged over a month-long delay in announcing that the children's ward at St John's Hospital Livingston would not be restored to 24/7 opening this month as promised.
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