24 Hour Candle Light Vigil to Save Walnuttree Hospital Sudbury, Suffolk

12/10/04 - PRNewswire

24 Hour Candle Light Vigil to Save Walnuttree Hospital Sudbury, Suffolk PRNewswire SUDBURY, England December 10

SUDBURY, England, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 3pm Sunday December 12th, 2004 Until 3pm Monday December 13th 2004

The 'Hands Off Our Hospital' campaign will be holding a 24 hour through the night vigil outside Walnuttree Hospital, Walnuttree Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 1BE in advance of Monday's key meeting to decide the hospital's future

The 24 hour 'Vigil for Walnuttree' will protest against the potential removal of services from and closure of Walnuttree Hospital and will mark publicly the 24 hours preceding Monday's Crunch NHS Trust Meeting at the Hospital itself.

Hospital Workers, relatives of residents and supporters will maintain a 24 hour vigil on the Green outside Walnuttree Hospital, following the recent submission of a petition of over 10,000 people

The purpose of our vigil is to show support for Walnuttree Hospital for the lives it saves and improves and for the quality of care that it provides.

The purpose of this vigil is to demand transparency and openness surrounding decisions on the Hospital's future. The purpose of this vigil is to represent the 10,000 plus people who signed our petition and to maintain pressure on those taking vital decisions about a key resource in the East of England.

As the Local NHS Trust itself states:

Walnuttree Hospital is a vital part of the care provided by the Department of Medicine for the Elderly. It has 100 beds, three wards for consultant geriatric beds, one ward for GP beds, and a Day Hospital. There are also a variety of outpatient clinics serving the general population.