A SCOTTISH Labour peer has been ridiculed for a post on Twitter/X appearing to blame the SNP for an Ebola scare at a Scottish hospital.
Part of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was placed into lockdown on Tuesday night after receiving a patient with suspected Ebola virus .
The facility was quickly sealed off to members of the public as a test was ordered.
Reacting to the lockdown news, Labour peer George Foulkes was quick to brand it a “great scandal”.
He added: “Particularly since [John] Swinney has constantly said there are no problems at QEUH.
"How can he continue?”
This is a great scandal, particularly since Swinney has constantly said there are no problems at QEUH. How can he continue? https://t.co/oPDYpGglbH
— George Foulkes (@GeorgeFoulkes) June 30, 2026
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has been at the centre of a long‑running infection and patient‑safety scandal, with child deaths linked to contaminated water – placing pressure and asking serious questions of the SNP Government over how and when the site was opened.
But, just 20 minutes after Foulkes posted on Twitter/X to blame the SNP – it was confirmed that the suspected Ebola patient tested negative.
One SNP official, David Birkett, said: “Sick person goes to hospital, gets tests (which are negative) and presumably treatment for whatever is ailing them, aye that's quite a scandal.”
“It sounds like you've conflated two entirely unrelated matters. One of which is about problems in a hospital and the other is a person being tested for an infection,” another social media user said.
Another added: “Time to log off.”
A fourth added: “Wow… Mr Foulkes. Get a grip. You can’t assume this is the hospital's fault. It could be somebody who has been admitted with the infection. Stop playing politics on serious illness, eh?”
According to the NHS, Ebola is not airborne and cannot be caught through routine social contact.
You contract it by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal.
