Facility needed nearer homes

I recently wrote to our Prime Minister and said we should have our community hospital replaced.

Astonishingly, the powers that be finally agreed with me and advised me that a sum of £475 million has been allocated for the purpose of reinstatement of local hospitals.

This has been passed to council officials in the hope that they will seize this chance and persuade the local health authority to provide a replacement for our beloved Oswestry and District Hospital, which the NHS wantingly destroyed.

For many years I have advocated a local hospital replacement, where people could be healed and convalesce after operations, thus freeing up valued bed spaces at the main hospitals.

I, myself, have had experience of being in Shrewsbury hospital for five months with a leg injury. After it was set I could have been conveyed by ambulance to a local hospital, where my wife and family could have made more visits.

Oswestry urgently needs a replacement hospital.

Ted Roberts, Oswestry