The Government has allowed Basingstoke Hospital to fall to its knees, failing to acknowledge a new one needs to be built with the capacity filled.
This is wrong as many know Kier Starmer’s campaign has been one of words, not action, and this applies not only to politics on a national but local scale too in regards to Basingstoke Hospital.
When he came to the borough only months ago, he told Basingstoke Gazette that a hospital would be constructed which is what the town and its people need so desperately.
There’s been a gridlock recently in terms of beds with hospices receiving a cut of support and help too for patients wrongly. At the end of the day, hospices are charities funded by donations to carry on running but now they’re at risk too, alongside a hospital which is about to burst!
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The staff can’t work any harder than they are amid a rapidly capitulating NHS in this country, the system is vanishing.
I experienced this first hand, after falling down the stairs recently and waiting 17 hours for help. It was awful but this wasn’t the paramedics’ or ambulance crew’s fault, but the system.
It’s completely wrong that the Government which promised to go ahead with new plans is now refusing to build Basingstoke a well needed upgraded one. After the Gazette launched the petition for a new hospital, the government backtracked on their words calling it “unaffordable” and “unrealistic” further instilling greater mistrust between the mass and the current government, ranked as the worst in modern history.
Well I think that sums it all up, don’t you?
The people of this town need to keep on protesting for a new hospital, it’s the words of the mass which truly counts!
Liam HardingKempshott
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