OK A MASS MEETING of workers at the for women in Camden, North London, has voted unanimously [except for the hospital secretary, who abstained] to reject the Camden & Islington Area Health Authority's decision to close down the remaining two wards. The workers decided to work-in if necessary to stop the AHA from moving the patients out.
The AHA's intention to dump the EGA patients and some of the staff in the Whittington Hospital [whose theatres are already bring used for the EGA's surgical casus because of thie AHA's refusal to mend the main lift at the EGA], leaving behind the out-patients, X-Ray departments and the pathology lab. After a temporary" stay of a couple of years there, Tne H0e8 HISTD Te ocaTe mne whole EGA [considerably reduced in size] in the Royal Northern Hospital's St. David's wing.
Why is the AHA so determinea to close down the EGA on its present site? First, the Euston Road site could be sold for s to property derelopers - although this money would not be put back into the cwindling collers of tne AHA, but would go straight to the DHSS. Secondly, the closure would fit into the AHA's plans for implementing massive cutbacks demanded, by the Government for the inner London area.
If they could move the rest of the patients and staff into the Whittington, they hope to be able to reduce the combined number of EGA and Whittington staff. And they could avoid having to employ more staff, which they would have to do if they used the empty wards at the Whittington for the patients on the waiting list in the Islington district, which the hospital serves.
The Save the EGA Campaign has been leafletting the local hospitals - some of which joined the EGA on a one-day strike in its support on 21 lons of pouns COHSE being made -MOYE
PIGKET
IN OFFICIAL MISPUTE NO!
HACKNEY AH IS SICKER THAN ITS L*ATI NO
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