The Ayrshire Post have today launched a campaign to save Station 15 at Ayr Hospital.
And we are urging our thousands of readers, community groups, politicians, church leaders, businesses and traders to unite and throw their weight behind the campaign by signing our petition.
Health chiefs have proposed to move local cancer treatment for main tumours from Ayr to Kilmarnock under a controversial shake-up of the service. They want doctors to treat cancer patients at Crosshouse Hospital, while all that would be left of the cancer facilities at Ayr would be nurses.
We are calling on local MSP Jeane Freeman, whose ward covers Ayr Hospital and who is the Scottish Health Secretary, to intervene and stop these proposals.
Station 15 is a vital part of Ayr Hospital. A local facility is needed to cope with the demand that one in two people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.
We want health chiefs to start listening to the local community. Their own consultation feels simply like a tick box exercise and they have told the Post they will ignore an older online petition saying: “There is a historical petition. But when you click on it you can see it is several years old and is addressed to Shona Robison, who has not been the Health Secretary since 2018.”
We therefore urge our readers to make their voices heard by signing our petition today at www.change.org/p/jeane-freeman-msp-ayrshire-post-save-station-15-at-ayr-hospital.
