Only half of people attending the area’s closest accident and emergency were seen within four hours, according to new figures.
Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie has slammed the Health Secretary over waiting times – claiming his inaction is risking lives.
Newly-published figures show that during the week ending July 17 only 67.9 percent of attendances at A&E services across Scotland were seen, and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within four hours.
The figure was even lower at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) in Paisley with just 51.1 percent of people seen and admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
At hospitals in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area, some 511 patients spent more than eight hours in an A&E department and, of the 142 patients across the region who spent more than 12 hours waiting, 111 of these had attended at the RAH.
Labour MSP Jackie Baillie said: “The crisis in our NHS A&E departments is stubbornly persisting thanks to the inaction of Humza Yousaf.
“Thousands of Scots are now waiting over eight hours for ‘emergency’ treatment weekly.
“This includes 267 people, many of whom will have been from Dumbarton, the Vale, Balloch and Helensburgh, who had attended the RAH in Paisley – this is a scandal.
“Lives are being lost now, but the Health Secretary is missing in action, and the SNP government is distracted by constitutional sabre-rattling.
“It’s time the Health Secretary got back to work and did his job by ending this deadly crisis.”
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “The pandemic has presented our NHS with the greatest challenge it has faced in its 74-year existence. Despite this, Scotland continues to have the best performing A&Es in the UK, outperforming those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for over six years. The number of Covid inpatients we are seeing in hospital has been increasing, resulting in a reduced capacity in our hospitals and staff absences, and having a detrimental impact on delays in A&E.
“Despite this extreme pressure, latest stats show more than two-thirds of patients are being seen in our A&E departments within the four-hour target.”
