Let's Pour Salt Into The Wound, Shall We?

Hello Friends!

I am speechless!  Well, maybe not, because I am incandescently angry and, like many others in my county, up in arms over developments this past week.

I am going to give you a series of links which you can read if you want a fuller version, but the bottom line is the powers that be have decided to make major cut backs in funding and reduction of services to four of the main/only hospitals that service west Wales and the Hywel Dda Health Authority, including Emergency Surgery at Withybush Hospital.

The four main hospitals impacted by these decisions are Withybush, Bronglais, Morriston, and Prince Phillip.

Here are three short articles from the local newspaper that outline the situation and impact, in order of date of publication:

Withybush Hospital future in balance ahead of key meeting | Western Telegraph

Withybush Hospital to lose emergency general surgery | Western Telegraph

Anger at Pembrokeshire Withybush hospital decision | Western Telegraph

Understandably, there is public outrage, and once again the residents of Pembrokeshire take to all the platforms available to them to protest and fight to keep our hospital services.  In the meantime, YOU can help by signing the petition, below.  I have checked with the organisers and it is not location specific so yes, you can sign it and share it because EVERY SINGLE SIGNATURE COUNTS!  And, it could affect you, too, should you come to the area on holiday and need hospital treatment.

Urgent Pembrokeshire Healthcare & Resident Safety - Withybush Hospital & Health Board Intervention - Petitions

Not wanting to go down the route of bad puns, the following news today has just poured salt into the wound and added insult to injury when our First Minister, Eluned Morgan, visited Royal Alexandra in Rhyl to announce a £33 million investment in Minor Injuries, Radiology, NHS Dentistry, and Rehabilitation for the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Eluned Morgan in Rhyl

I knew both her parents.  I served on several committees with her mother, and I cannot help wondering how they would feel about the way their daughter is behaving towards the place they called home. 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND SHARE IT.