Campaigners wanting a 24-hour doctor-led Accident and Emergency department at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr are holding a public meeting in Blackwood on Tuesday April 2.
The £172m hospital near Ystrad Mynach, which opened in November 2011, has a local emergency centre for minor injuries.
Campaigners say this is not enough and that Caerphilly County Borough needs its own A&E. They have recently been spreading the word of the campaign in Blackwood, where they say responses have been positive.
Last month, more than 150 campaigners walked with banners and placards from the site of the old Caerphilly Miners’ Hospital into Caerphilly town centre.
Since opening, the new hospital has treated more than 100,000 patients and Aneurin Bevan Health Board has previously said it does not have the doctors for a full A&E department in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.
The campaigners are also opposed to the South Wales Programme – a hospital shake-up which could see services centralised in four or five hospitals in the south.
A public meeting will be held in the main hall downstairs at the Blackwood Miners’ Institute on Tuesday, April 2 at 7.30pm.
I wonder if this `Campaign` will now be viewed, by the new Minister for Health at the Assembly, Professor Mark Drakeford AM, in a new light, particularly after he has been warned on Friday, by the highest A & E health professionals in the Land, that our existing A & E units are at `breaking point` and, if not already, will soon be causing to effect a loss of life of those attending them in emergencies.
Any `rearranging of the deck chairs` will be insufficient, he has been warned!!!!
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needs to be 24 hours