The mum of tragic 10-year-old Milly Main has provided a testimonial for Labour MSP Anas Sarwar during his campaign to be party leader.
Kimberly Darroch, who believes Milly’s death was caused by contaminated water at Glasgow’s super hospital, said Sarwar had backed her family when “others just walked by.”
Milly was undergoing cancer treatment at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital when she died in 2017 after catching an infection.
Kimberly, who is from Lanark, told the Record she believed her daughter’s death was “100 per cent” due to water at the hospital.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have said no link has been established between the water at the hospital and Milly’s death.
Sarwar, a Glasgow MSP, has fought for answers for Milly’s family and raised the case at the Scottish Parliament. He also helped the family in their call for a fatal accident inquiry.
Sarwar is up against fellow MSP Monica Lennon in the battle to succeed Richard Leonard as Scottish Labour leader.
In his campaign video, Kimberly was of the people who praised Sarwar.
She said: “In 2017, I lost my daughter Milly. Milly was being treated in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow for leukemia. She got an infection due to contaminated water.
“Anas helped to uncover the failures that led to Milly’s death. He stood by us when others just walked by.”
David Hamilton, a former miner and Labour MP, also backed Sarwar in the video, as did equalities campaigner and candidate Pam Duncan-Glancy.
The video also includes Sarwar talking about his grandfather Ghulam Mohammed, who travelled by boat to the UK in the 1940s and settled in Lossiemouth.
