Area Health steals Peninsula equipment

I would like to take this opportunity to express my personal thanks to the Peninsula community for its bravery in standing up and being counted to save the rehabilitation unit at Woy Woy Hospital.

Its removal is a despicable and callous crime against the people of the Peninsula and Gosford.

Also I acknowledge the great input made by Ed James, who always has the community first in his heart.

I congratulate him on his integrity and tenacity.

Ed has great clarity of thought in any matter of community, and his past efforts are to be admired and are appreciated by the community.

Where is Marie Andrews? Where is Chris Hartcher? Where is the Mayor?

The Rehabilitation Unit is a lost cause, only because of the weak-kneed, incompetent politicians we elected, in our grave error, and mistakenly hoping for decent representation.

May God forgive us for this hideous mistake.

The Unit will come back to Woy Woy.

It will be rebuilt, and with community ownership, as it has always been, and will rise like phoenix from the ashes of this politically and bureaucratically orchestrated disaster.

It was a lost cause long before it became known to the public.

Bureaucrats excel at this type of exercise: "Let's disregard the little people, the community, and what they think they need, because we know what they are or are not going to have."

Who are these people to make decisions that affect the entire community from Hawkesbury to Wyong?

Can we expect, or will we demand, from the next incoming political representative, that the first task undertaken will be to replace what has been stolen from the community?

Exercise machines and 30 hi-tech beds costing $10,000 each, which were provided by the various ladies committees over a long, long period of time, have all been stolen from the community by Area Health.

This equipment is the property of the citizens of Gosford and the Peninsula community.

How to shatter trust, how to demonstrate respect to those who voted for you: Steal from them!

Zoe Russell, Umina Beach