Brave teen who spent first year of his life in hospital hails pledge to keep Yorkhill name alive
SAMUEL Bell, 15, met Health Secretary Alex Neil who has pledged to keep the name of the iconic hospital once it moved to the brand new Southern General next year.
A BRAVE teenager who was expected to die as a baby yesterday hailed a pledge to save the name of Yorkhill hospital.
Samuel Bell , 15, is over the moon to win the support of Health Secretary Alex Neil in his fight to keep the name.
The hospital – officially the Royal Hospital for Sick Children – will move from Yorkhill in Glasgow across the Clyde to the Southern General in about a year.
In a private meeting with the SNP minister in Holyrood, Samuel said: “People from all over Scotland have been coming to this hospital since the early 1900s when it was called Yorkhill. It would be a shame for the name to die just because the hospital has moved premises.”
Samuel was born with a rare bowel disease and is unable to eat. He wears a backpack which pumps nutrients into his body.
