Caithness Courier
CAMPAIGNERS fighting threats to downgrade local maternity services have announced plans to stage a mass protest outside Caithness General Hospital on Mother's Day.
The action was endorsed at a public meeting organised by the Scottish Socialist Party and attended by more than 70 people in the Assembly Rooms, Wick, on Saturday.
Registered midwife Carolyn Leckie, an SSP MSP and her party's health spokeswoman, was guest speaker and told the gathering the current review of local maternity services is a sham.
Ms Leckie told the meeting: "This is an absolutely horrendous prospect to contemplate in the 21st century when we are the fourth-richest country in the world. We shouldn't be talking about setting back our maternity services, we should be improving them and making them fit for the 21st century.