NEWS that the hospital in Oban is to be able to give pregnant women ultrasound scans once three new posts are filled next year sparked a lot of comment. Yvonne MacLean posted: ‘About time! It’s scandalous that appropriate services for pregnant women is not available at the moment in Oban.’
Julia Race agreed: ‘How can you have a maternity unit without an ultrasound scanner, that’s disgraceful, it’s not the 1950s.’
Sophie Maccoll asked: ‘What happened to the ones the used to have? there still qualified ultrasound staff up there is there not?’