Military hospital closure
Forum MessageTopic: Military Hospital Petition Forum Home Posted by: Paul Fisher Date/Time: 02/08/08 23:04:00 I had this email forwarded to me by one of my friends. It is a petition with the aim of having a dedicated military hospital to treat those injured on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the email states, this could be done by keeping RMH Hasler open for this purpose. We need at least 5,000 names to this petition and any readers of this Forum who feel they would like to add their weight to this cause would be appreciated. My friend has served with the Aeromedical Evacuation Sqn in Iraq and Afghanistan so it is a subject close to my heart.Dear allThis is a great idea. RMH Haslar is set to close, but is still operational and could be made into a great home for our injured service personnel. Some background: '2 Para' alone have on their current tour sent back over 50 casualties to the UK, and even that many cannot be accommodated at Selly Oak Hospital. So when all of the casualties from other battle groups are added to this figure, how is ONE ward in ONE NHS hospital going to cope? It cannot, and as a result the individual troops are sent home to recover relying on NHS visiting services which themselves are over committed.We need a dedicated military hospital if servicemen and servicewomen, who have been committed to hostilities and injured, are to get the medical care they rightly deserve.A lot more than 5000 names are needed for this petition to survive, and quite cynically, Downing Street has put a time limit of one month - during the summer holidays - for this to be achieved. Please support it - please copy the link below to confirm your signature on the petition. Please forward this email to as many people as you can. Thanks.http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Wounded/ The petition was created by Denzil Connick and reads: 'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Create a dedicated Military & Veterans Hospital within the UK.'Kevin Shore K Shore MBE OStJ.WO1(MA)PRMC Warrant OfficerPrincess Royal Medical CentreDevil's Tower CampBFPO 52 Tel: 00350 5 5186Mil: 98531 5186FAX: 00350 5 5303e-mail: GIB_PRMC_WO1Of course your right to protest about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is respected, but we should take care of our service people when they are returned home badly injured.......THANKS
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