Baby airlifted 150 miles, but mother told 'take the bus'

Published Date: 05 July 2008 A TEENAGE mother forced to give birth more than a hundred miles from home was handed £50 to catch the bus while her baby was airlifted to a hospital in Aberdeen. Ashleigh Wiseman, 18, from Buckie in Banffshire, was already distraught following a five-hour ambulance trip to a Glasgow maternity hospital after she went into premature labour. Days after giving birth eight weeks early, she was told her daught er, McKenna, would be airlifted back to a hospital in Aberdeen. Staff at the Southern General hospital in Glasgow refused to let Ashleigh travel in the air ambulance and instead gave her money for public transport. Last night, Margaret Watt, of the Scotland Patients' Association, said: "What happened here is totally unacceptable. "This shows a total lack of compassion." Ashleigh said: "I was... [read full story]