IN nine weeks 66 people died in care homes in Fife where the coronavirus was a factor.
These are vulnerable individuals who were placed in care homes because this was supposed to be the safest place for them where they could expect the best care. Instead they faced dying before their time without family, without GP visits, and largely without palliative care.
It would be good to have some figures for how many people have been discharged from "bed-blocking" in hospitals and transferred into care homes since the order (and funding) came from the Scottish Government to empty hospitals in March.
It would then be necessary to know whether these transfers were tested for Covid-19, and what infection control procedures were in place in the care homes they were transferred to. Crucial to this is information is whether care staff had PPE fit for purpose when these new patients entered.
I doubt we will ever get this information because it would show clearly where the callous negligence lay which caused 66 individuals to die, and who was responsible for it.
LINDA HOLT (Independent Cllr for East Neuk & Landward),
Dreel House,
Pittenweem.
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