Hundreds of OAPs have been handed Covid-19 booster appointments asking them to make 50-mile round trips to get their jabs. People in their late seventies living in East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire have all received appointments to go to Port Glasgow for their third vaccinations.
And many who can no longer drive are facing journeys of more than four hours to get there. Some have been given Sunday appointments, when public transport is limited or not available at all.Kevin McDade, a retired nursing lecturer from Barrhead is one of many who got an appointment.The 76-year-old can no longer drive because of his failing eyesight and to get to the Inverclyde vaccination centre would require him to catch a bus to Paisley before