Family thank Daily Record for helping brain injury patient who was barricaded inside hospital room get move to …

THE family of a brain injury victim have thanked the Daily Record for forcing health chiefs to move their loved one to a specialist hospital.

We told how Bill Douglas, 59, was trapped inside his hospital room at Glasgows Victoria Infirmary with a plank of wood jammed against the door handle.

After the Record published a disturbing image of the makeshift barricade, Health Minister Shona Robison stepped in and forced local NHS chiefs to apologise.

Robison said she was deeply concerned by the way he was treated.

The Record covered the Victoria Infirmary barricading Bill in his room earlier this week

And now Bill has been transferred to a specialist psychiatric unit by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Bills sister Morag Douglas, 55, thanked us for highlighting the issue. She said: Its shocking it takes this much exposure to make them give Bill proper treatment.

All we are interested in is what is right for Bill and what will help him the most.

If it wasnt for the Record, I dont know what would have happened.

Bill's room was barricaded into by nurses at the Victoria Infirmary

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