A care home with some of the highest covid death rates recorded in the pandemic is facing whisteblower claims that OAPs needed amputations for gangrene.
Golfhill Nursing Home, in Dennistoun, Glasgow's East End, is run by Advinia Healthcare - which confirmed a "large scale" investigation is taking place.
A report by the Crown Office, published in April, showed Golfhill care home recorded 11 deaths related to coronavirus, among the highest rates.
A worker at the 105-bed care home was convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner after telling a colleague "let's drown the b***h" as they bathed an elderly resident, in 2018.
The Care Inspectorate investigation is said to have followed "months of complaints" about sub-standard and unsafe conditions at the home including residents being admitted to hospital suffering from dehyrdration.
The problems are said to centre on the intermediate care unit, where elderly residents are transferred after being discharged from hospital, requiring a higher level of care and remaining there for around a month before being sent home or into long-term care.
According to a source, the unit has been short staffed, "almost on a daily basis" because employees were being transferred to other areas of the home.
The source told The Herald: "The contract states that the unit has one registered nurse and four carers.
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