LEADING professor has criticized the Scottish Government for failing to medicate the population with Vitamin D.
Professor George Ebers, of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurology at Oxford University, said doctors should “mass medicate” Scotland with the vitamin.
He said evidence it could help combat conditions such as multiple sclerosis and high blood pressure should be enough to warrant a national program.
Mr Ebers said policy makers with “courage and vision” were needed in Scotland, where an estimated 10,000 people die every year from MS.
Sir Harry Burns, the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, has resisted the move until more trials have been carried out.