Christina Ong

BBC News • 9th May 2022

Postnatal depression: 'The help is too far away to risk having more kids’

New mums with severe mental health problems are having to travel hundreds of miles to get hospital treatment because all of the specialist beds for patients with acute postnatal depression are in Scotland's central belt.

BBC News • 4th July 2022

I gave up waiting for my NHS op and went private

Sue Stenton was told by her GP that it would be at least two-and-a-half years to have hip surgery on the NHS so she decided to use her savings to get the operation done privately.

After approaching a private company, Sue was advised to have a hip replacement in two months due to how severe the arthritis was in her right hip, with the procedure costing her £14,600.

"I fully appreciate the effects the pandemic has had on the NHS, but I also feel this is being used as an excuse for the delays in

BBC News • 26th May 2022

Doctors warning about weight loss surgery overseas

Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese (having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 or above or 35 plus other obesity-related health conditions).

Mr de Beaux said that in his own health board, NHS Lothian, last year there were 33 urgent referrals for medical help for people who had received weight loss surgery overseas and something had gone wrong.

"In the last three months we've had two patients that have stepped off a

BBC News • 15th March 2021

Covid in Scotland: People are treating us like the disease

Police Scotland say hate crimes against Chinese and Asian and South East Asian people have increased by 50%. But community campaigners believe the real figure is much higher.

The Ferret • 30th July 2020

Big brands pay us less, say Black Scottish influencers

It’s a rapidly expanding industry worth billions but Scottish bloggers and social media influencers claim that Black influencers are paid less than their white counterparts.

They are speaking out after a new Instagram page was set up in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has exposed alleged discriminatory practices by companies against Black influencers.

BBC News • 21st June 2020

The Glasgow tenement strangers who bonded over neglected wasteland

A group of residents in Glasgow that transformed their neglected back court into a community garden

BBC The Social • 19th November 2020

Becoming A Female Quran Reciter With Madinah Javed

Madinah Javed is an activist, a women’s rights campaigner and one of just a few female Quran reciters in the UK. Her recital at St Mary’s Cathedral sparked backlash online and she’s now hoping to change the stigma associated with women reciting the Quran publicly.

BBC The Social • 12th August 2020

Creating Scotland's First Black Superhero

Etienne Kubwabo is a filmmaker and DJ from Glasgow who moved to Scotland 10 years ago from The Democratic Republic of Congo. Etienne talks about his journey into film making and how he turned to comic books to create Scotland’s first black superhero.