Mrs Rose Genner of Caynham, Ludlow, says bad weather proves need for local dialysis (From Ludlow Advertiser)

Mrs Rose Genner of Caynham, Ludlow, says bad weather proves need for local dialysis

8:00am Friday 5th February 2010

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I FULLY agree with Mrs Helen Jones (Advertiser letters, January 21) that thanks are due to those who kept going throughout the recent bad weather and I share her disgust at the theft of grit from our grit bins.

I was one of the lucky ones who, as she says, could “marvel at the wonderful scener y” from the warmth of my own home. But I would ask you to spare a thought for those who had no choice but to venture out onto the roads.

In particular, my thoughts were with our local haemodialysis patients who have to get to hospital for their treatment, three days a week, every week, whatever the weather.

My late father would have really struggled to get to Kidderminster on several days recently and my heart goes out to those others who still had to make the journey for this essential, lifesaving treatment.

This is one of the reasons that I would urge readers to please support Ludlow Hospital’s League of Friends in its efforts to raise funds to enable a dialysis unit to be incorporated into the existing hospital.

Whether or not we get funding for a new hospital, if we can get this unit up and running it will make such a difference to the lives of existing local haemodialysis patients and to future ones – and that could be any one of us.

MRS ROSE GENNER, Caynham, Ludlow.

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