Author Peter May is critical of moves to close libraries and other community hubs.
Crime writer Peter May has donated six iPads to NHS Western Isles to help its virtual visiting service.
The author of the best-selling The Lewis Trilogy has recently released a thriller Lockdown, penned in 2005, that predicts a world in quarantine as a result of a global outbreak.
My May spent time as a patient in Western Isles Hospital in the 1990s while working on a local TV series and praised the virtual service which uses video calls to allow face-to-face communication while hospital visits are prevented.
He said: “Having pledged the entire amount of the advance on my latest book, Lockdown, to charities, organisations and individuals on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus, I have tried wherever possible to see that a good proportion of that money goes back to the people of the Western Isles to whom I owe so much of my success.
“I think the virtual visiting scheme at the NHS hospital in Stornoway is a brilliant idea, and hope that my small contribution will help keep patients and loved ones in touch.”
NHS Western Isles chief executive Gordon Jamieson welcomed the “generous and thoughtful” donation.
‘Lockdown’ author helps hospital’s virtual visiting service with iPad donation
