Help needed to save hospital
As a resident of Umina for 36 years I would like to thank your paper, the Peninsula News, for being so supportive and publishing the many reports from disgruntled residents regarding the removal of our greatly needed Woy Woy Hospital rehab unit.
Now we need your assistance along with the support of people living in the area of the Peninsula and surrounds to congregate together to save not only the rehab but the whole Woy Woy Public Hospital and to make sure it is never closed or certain other facilities are not removed.
We already have the bricks and mortar.
We have been fobbed off too long with reasons it is better to keep everything at Gosford Hospital.
This was the story told to us over three decades ago when we tried to get a bigger public hospital here at Woy Woy.
We were told it would be better to spend the money keeping up Gosford Hospital.
Now it seems we are expected to travel as far as Kanwal for some treatment.
We are being treated very unjustly and now we need to band together and not only ask but demand from the health services that we receive what other areas expect and are given their due rights.
That is, a fully equipped public hospital to cater for all the surrounds of Woy Woy Peninsula, over 36,000 of us.
Where are all the people or their relations who have had treatment at the hospital or rehab? We need all of you to join us in this conflict.
We need you to come along to the meetings of Woy Woy Hospital Alliance held at the Anglican Church Hall, Blackwall Rd, Woy Woy.
We are determined to win this battle.
Joan Armstrong, Umina
10 Aug 2009