Angry coalition calls meeting on cuts
By SARAH SANDS The Canterbury Health Coalition has called a public meeting to discuss the Canterbury Hospital Board’s cost-cutting proposals. A spokeswoman for the group, Ms Jackie Newton, said yesterday the coalition was angry about the proposals which attacked the powerless — the elderly, psychiatrically ill, children and physically disabled. A request that the board held a public meeting to discuss the proposals had been turned down, said Ms Newton. “We think a public meeting will show the extent of the
resistance in Christchurch to the health cuts. “We are angry at the cuts because the Government promised to maintain funding to the health sector. We see the Canterbury board as spineless in the way it has negotiated with the Government, about these cuts.” The public meeting would discuss taking further action that would target the Government as the original cause of the costsaving proposals, she said. The meeting will be held on Thursday at 7.30 p.m. in the Horticultural Hall, Cambridge Terrace.
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