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Article: Mum hits at delay over seeing specialist while son is at risk from asthma attack; Boy with killer allergy is six years on waiting list
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- January 24, 2002
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A schoolboy has spent more than half his life waiting for
treatment for a life-threatening allergy.
Ten-year-old Scott Ritchie has an allergy to peanuts that could
trigger a severe asthma attack at any time.
Doctors referred him to a specialist clinic at Glasgow Royal
Infirmary when he was four and gave his mother an emergency injection
kit to save his life if he had an attack.
However, almost six years later, he has still not been given a
first appointment with the specialist and health bosses have now told
him to look elsewhere for treatment.
His mother June, 37, from East Kilbride, said: "They've told me
there is only one consultant at the allergy clinic and she only has
time to see ...
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