Top stories in this week’s Oban Times - there is news of staffing constraints at Oban and Mull Public Dental Services putting such a strain on clinics run at Lorn and Islands Hospital and in Tobermory, leading to health bosses temporarily suspending routine care for adult patients.
Oban’s hyperbaric chamber out at Dunstaffnage giving oxygen therapy to divers with the Bends has closed after NHS funding was withdrawn, and with that goes its expert medics who were on call 24/7 - the nearest chamber is now Aberdeen.
More than 600 homes are standing empty in the Oban area while Argyll tackles a housing emergency, according to council figures, and Kerrera has officially opened the doors of its new community hub at the island’s old school building.
Community archaeologists on Lismore at last have scientific proof that their island can rival Iona, Scotland’s best known cradle of Christianity. Lismore Historical Society has finally been given a definitive radiocarbon date that confirms part of a stone building they started to uncover in 2019 is part of a monastery founded by St Moluagh who did much to promote Christianity among the Picts..
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