Newton Stewart hospital campaigners demand urgent summit with NHS Dumfries and Galloway chiefs
dailyrecord.co.ukHospital campaigners are demanding an urgent summit with health board chiefs following a packed public meeting in Newton Stewart on Saturday.
More than 200 people attended the Riverside Centre to hear a series of speakers call for the town’s hospital to be reopened.
A convoy of tractors – one towing a hospital bed and “patient” – joined the protest after making the 18-mile trip from Whithorn.
Event co-organiser and retired GP Angela Armstrong said: “It was a really successful meeting. The public certainly made their feelings clear regarding their love for Newton Stewart Hospital and their desire to see it open again.” And, in a letter to regional NHS chief executive Jeff Ace on behalf of League of Friends of Newton Stewart Hospital, Councillor Willie Scobie insisted that the turnout “demonstrated the strength of feeling” on the issue.
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk
