Wake up on hospital before elections

"Hospital to get $500,000 fund injection" - This heading jumped up out of the pages of another Gosford paper.

The Peninsula News is to be congratulated on being jumps ahead in supplying up-to-date news to its readers. Congratulations and well done.

Such a piddling amount of a one off $500,000 does not impress, or make the act of past public theft right.

"Transition" does not provided for ongoing rehabilitation and the community is wanting the Government, which now recognises our area as a region, to have available to all in the region, the facility of a rehabilitation unit of the highest standard.

The bean counters should return the misappropriated money from our (now regional) health system and give back to our region our hard-earned-by-the-community, rehabilitation unit and, most importantly, the highly-skilled staff that serviced this very high standard rehabilitation unit at Woy Woy Hospital.

Anything less is not acceptable and a miserable "one off" of $500,000 simply does not impress, or cut the mustard with the community.

Carmel and Marie should get real, and their party should wake up to itself.

The elections are coming.

Readers should be sure to make their vote count and vote for the person, not the party.

Letter, 30 Jun 2010 Zoe Russell, Umina