Family of vulnerable Scot demand answers after he 'walks out' hospital ward
05.08.2022 - 07:11
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The family of a vulnerable Scot with severe mental health issues have questioned how he was able to walk out of a ward at Hairmyres Hospital where he is currently sectioned. Craig Graeme Hannah, who has Bipolar Schizoaffective Disorder, sparked an urgent police search after 'absconding' from Ward 19 at midday on Tuesday, July 2.
The 35-year-old, who is on a 28 day hold, was found by police around 10 hours later in the Darnley area of Glasgow, after being spotted getting into a taxi at East Kilbride train station. His worried mum Andrea McClintock and her partner John Cairney, from Larkhall, are now demanding hospital chiefs launch an investigation into the full circumstances of Craig’s disappearance.
They’ve also raised concerns about the lack of security on the ward after hearing ‘conflicting’ accounts of what happened. John, 58, said: “Somebody needs to be held accountable for this because the next person who goes missing from there might not be so lucky.
“Craig was sectioned on Thursday last week. We’ve been trying to get him in for the last two months because he’s so unwell. When we went up to see him on Sunday, they wouldn’t let him go outside for a cigarette with us because he wasn’t allowed to leave the hospital.
“But then we got a phone call at 2.10pm on Tuesday saying he had absconded from ward 19. His room is right in front of the nurses station and at that ward, you need to be buzzed in and out of the door.
“They initially told us that no one had seen him leaving and they didn’t know how he had got out. But now they’re saying he pushed past the nurses and they couldn’t stop him because there’s no security on the ward. The story keeps changing.
“We asked where the security was on the ward and they said it was the
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