Our beautful hospital stands empty and those who cared for our sick and elderly are rewarded for their lifetime’s work by being scattered to the wind. Now when we are old and sick we will be condemned to care in our own homes and abject loneliness.

So don’t forget to remember what we had when we are jolted along on dirty crowed buses to some big hospital where a nurse calls out a number and we are just another faceless patient that gets seen by a doctor that does not know us.

We had it and, by all of our apathy, we lost it. Soon the building where so many of our loved ones convalesced or died will be flats or pulled down. How stupid we have been.

Kevin Pyne

Lake Street, Dartmouth