Hospital needed now more than ever

We are fighting to save our Woy Woy Public Hospital and have all services upgraded as recommended in the Final Report 2008, along with the return of the Rehabilitation Hospital which was stripped away without consultation over two years ago.

While the Alliance is chaired by a well-known liberal authorising officer, our group is not intended as a political platform for any political party.

It is a gathering together of people who want their rehabilitation hospital to be put back in the Woy Woy Public Hospital precinct.

The Alliance want it known that everyone is invited to attend our meetings including those politicians who go for breaks by telling all who will listen that they have not been invited to these public meetings.

Held on the third Saturday of each month, the next is Saturday, November 20, at the usual time of 2 pm in the church hall behind Saint Lukes in Blackwall Rd, Woy Woy.

Since the amalgamation of Woy Woy and Gosford, many of you will have noticed how neglected the Peninsula has been.

The health system is a shambles.

Nevertheless, there is no need to accept at face value what little information those in power hand out.

Concerned residents, men, women and children of the Woy Woy Peninsula, many of them on walking frames or riding motorized wheel chairs, have handed out flyers and collected names on petitions.

The Gosford Foghorn (as Ed James is affectionately known) has spent his own money purchasing thousands of dollars in advertising and paid for at least one bus trip to State Parliament to help the community with a fight against their elected representatives.

This man and many others continue to fight for you and yours.

If a hospital was needed when 17.000 people lived here surely 36.000 are just as needful. Political apathy will not stop us.

Letter, 20 Oct 2010 Marj Cleere, Umina