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| * The future of Llan Cottage Hospital will be debated tomorrow night. |
Aim is to get 1,000 names
North Wales Assembly Member Llyr
Huws Gruffydd has agreed to be one of the guest speakers at the community meeting
being held tomorrow (Thursday) evening on the future of Llan’s Cottage
Hospital.
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| * Llyr Huws Gruffydd AM |
It has been organised by new
local campaign group Llangollen Protest to fight the closure of the hospital
proposed recently by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
A spokesman for Llangollen
Protest said he had also sent out an invitation for someone from the health
centre to attend but had not yet received a response.
Main aim of the group at the
meeting, to be held at the Hand Hotel from 7pm, will be to gather support for a
local referendum to be held on the closure issue.
Meanwhile, Llangollen Protest
is asking people who oppose the hospital closure to sign an online petition at:
Petition organisers say they
aim to get at least 1,000 signatures on the petition online.
They will also be distributing
hard copies of signature sheets across the town tomorrow, they add.
A campaign spokesman said: “A
thousand signatures should be possible.
“There is a campaign to save
the bank in Corwen at the moment which has had over 1700 signatures.
“One thousand names in a
community the size of Llan would be a fair representation, I think, and would
show the strength of feeling.
“We have only some eight
weeks left (before the consultation period ends) to gather these and hopefully
more.
“This, along with the local
referendum campaign, should be effective.”
The health board aims to
close the local hospital and transfer some of the services it currently
provides across to neighbouring Chirk.
There is also a longer-term plan
to build a new health facility on land now occupied by the derelict River Lodge
hotel and which is owned by the Welsh Government
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