Boy's operation boosts Evening Post campaign

The South Wales Evening Post devoted its latest front page to the picture of a 12-year-old boy as part of its continuing campaign to keep a neurosurgery department at Swansea's Morriston hospital. Oliver Jones is shown with scars and one half of his head shaved after emergency surgery to remove a life-threatening blood clot following an accident. If the unit had not existed it is argued by the neurosurgeon who carried out the operation, Rupert Kett-White, that he may not have survived. Oliver's father, Rob Jones, agrees with the Evening Post's opposition to plans by Health Commission Wales to centralise neurosurgery in Cardiff. "It's too far away," he said. (Via thisissouthwales.co.uk)