the3towns can reveal Libyan nationals injured in the recent war that saw the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi are currently housed in a Saltcoats care home.
Arran View in Burns Avenue, which normally looks after elderly residents of local towns, is providing beds and recuperation facilities to ten Libyans. Mr Kenny Valentine, a director of Bupa, which owns Arran View, told the3towns, “We are working with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to look after ten people from Libya who were injured during the recent conflict there. Their treatment and care is being paid for by the Libyan Government and has been arranged by the Scottish Government.”
Mr Valentine said Bupa was proud to have been chosen to help with the rehabilitation and recovery of the Libyans, adding, “We wish them a speedy recovery so they can return to their families.”
The new residents of Arran View were brought to Scotland to receive specialist treatment from the NHS. They were fitted with prosthetics after losing limbs during the recent armed conflict in Libya, in which Britain provided military support to rebels fighting forces of the Gaddafi regime.
For the SNP Scottish Government, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said, “It is right that we play our part in the UK effort by helping innocent casualties from the war in Libya where we can.
“Scotland offers excellent prosthetics care and we can now offer this quality of care to others who urgently need it. All of the patients have suffered lower limb amputations and one is a bilateral amputee.”
It is understood the Libyan Embassy in London is funding the care of the ten people currently recuperating at Arran View.
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