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20.12.2022 - 11:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Hospital campaigners are demanding an urgent summit with health board chiefs following a packed public meeting in Newton Stewart on Saturday.
More than 200 people attended the Riverside Centre to hear a series of speakers call for the town’s hospital to be reopened.
A convoy of tractors – one towing a hospital bed and “patient” – joined the protest after making the 18-mile trip from Whithorn.
Event co-organiser and retired GP Angela Armstrong said: “It was a really successful meeting. The public certainly made their feelings clear regarding their love for Newton Stewart Hospital and their desire to see it open again.”
And, in a letter to regional NHS chief executive Jeff Ace on behalf of League of Friends of Newton Stewart Hospital, Councillor Willie Scobie insisted that the turnout “demonstrated the strength of feeling” on the issue.
He said: “There were many passionate and personal contributions made by individuals who have or are going through trauma in their own lives.
“They wanted to put why they feel the Newton Stewart Hospital could make a valuable contribution to health and social care.
“But they were extremely disappointed and even more angry that no one from the health bodies attended the public meeting.
“Refusal to meet or attend the public meeting when health bodies are agreeing a strategy of participation and engagement came over as being hypocritical of those health bodies.
“The meeting concluded that we demand that you and/or the health board meet with the friends of Newton Stewart Hospital in the first instance and thereafter attend a public meeting in Newton Stewart to lay out what plans the health board has for Newton Stewart Cottage Hospital.”
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