The Scottish Authorities's well being supremo Humza Yousaf has arrived Paisley's struggling Royal Alexandra Hospital to satisfy with workers.
Well being Minister Mr Yousaf is at present on the Corsebar Highway hospital assembly with workers, administration and union leaders who've been warning for months that workers on the Paisley facility are "on their knees" battling workers shortages and the fallout from the covid pandemic.
He's additionally anticipated to tour wards on the hospital.
Unison union leaders Barbara Metal and Margaret Duffy have been warning of "continual" workers shortages giving rise to a "dire" state of affairs since final October.
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Holyrood well being boss Mr Yousaf pledged in November that he would go to the RAH and converse with workers reps after he was grilled in parliament by Paisley-based MSP Neil Bibby.
The pledge to name on the RAH got here after Labour's Mr Bibby wrote to Mr Yousaf asking him to go to the hospital to listen to workers issues firsthand.
However after receiving no response to his letter, he raised the matter in Holyrood straight with the Well being Secretary.
Mr Bibby has claimed the RAH, which has notched up a collection of depressing A&E efficiency figures, has turn into a "forgotten hospital".