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Health Con International With the Health Care International fiasco rumbling on in Clydebank, it is time to ask just what is happening to our hospitals and health services. At the same time as millions of pounds worth of subsidies have gone into profiteering for the wealthy at Clydebank, Greater Glasgow Health Board have chosen to make across board savings of z56 million by cutbacks in services. Whole hospitals, such as the Western Infirmary and Rutherglen Maternity are to be completely closed (The Courier, 23/12/94). This leaves many people having to travel further to be admitted to hospital and the obvious dangers this creates. It leaves friends and relatives isolated miles away from hospitals, causing practical and financial difficulties and making many reliant on inadequate public transport to visit people in hospital or be an out patient. Far from condemning this situation, Labour M.P. Sam Galbraith is quoted as saying "Greater Glasgow Health Board are to be congratulated on this sensible proposal" (Courier, 24/12/94). With so little opposition, it is will be hardly surprising if the Scottish Office rubber stamp the plans. The Scottish Office, while happy to see z17.6 million of public money "written off" after the HCI failure and another z4.4 million offered as a "sweetener" to business interests (The Herald, 16/1/95), may find money too tight to mention when it comes to health care for need, not profit. Of course, other expenditures do not meet the same criteria. The Eurofighter, designed to combat a nonexistent soviet threat, will cost z13 billion (probably double that) and the National Audit office has discovered that z800 million has been "lost" in putting up huge sheds for Trident. Not forgetting the z23 million owned in corporation tax or the z1600 million owned in unpaid VAT. We have one option, ordinary people must make their voices heard, resist the cuts and the corrupt system that goes with them.