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Save Our Community Hospitals.

 

H.E.A.L. Northern Beaches agrees with many Northern Beaches residents who feel strongly about having access to better hospital services.

 

At the southern end of the peninsula on North Head, more than 100 years ago, Manly Hospital was built through the initiative of local residents and it has been the heart of its community ever since.

 

Further north, Mona Vale Hospital was built on coastal land gifted by a private citizen who wanted it to be used for medical purposes. It has enjoyed huge popularity amongst the northern end of the Peninsula all the way to Pittwater and Palm Beach.

 

Both hospitals are situated on precious land with beautiful ocean and district views, which greatly contribute to their healing atmosphere, in addition to the wonderfully caring medical attention for which smaller hospitals are famous.

 

The sad reality is that both of these great assets have been neglected by 3 successive state governments and allowed to be run down. The result is that the current government claims that our hospitals are 'beyond repair', that a new centralised and privately managed one has to be built instead.

 

H.E.A.L. is partly in agreement with this aim of the Northern Beaches hospital project.  However we argue that in order to obtain updated and state-of-the-art hospital services we do not have to lose our existing community hospitals. We say that both can be retained, repaired and rebuilt.

 

For higher grade services Mona Vale Hospital could be rebuilt and extended on its huge parcel of land.

 

If there is still a need for a higher grade hospital on a new site, it should be built on the Northern Beaches in a built-up area, that already has good transport services.

 

However, this government wants to go ahead with building a lone, centralised Northern Beaches Hospital in Frenchs Forest in a totally unsuitable location, seemingly  because it suits their private business partners.

 

If this proposal goes ahead we and future generations would have to bear the cost and heartaches of a white elephant which will not match the HEALING powers of the two existing community hospitals. It would destroy the precious ENVIRONMENT on the Frenchs Forest site. Furthermore, ACCESS would be extremely difficult and potentially life-threatening for many of the Northern Beaches residents and its millions of visitors.

 

In one word: It would be in the wrong LOCATION.

 

 

MONA VALE & MANLY 
 

Our Community Hospitals

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