Local councillors are to continue to canvas for support in their fight to maintain the Minor Injuries Units at Tenby and South Pembs. Hospitals.

Speaking at Tuesday night's meeting of Tenby Town Council, Deputy Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Caroline Thomas, who is also secretary of the South East Pembrokeshire Community Health Network (SEPCHN) who are campaigning to help save the MIU along with the council, said that she had attended a meeting of the Health Board the previous week where she found responses to her questions unsatisfactory, but she would not give up the campaign.

"I asked the question of whether the MIUs in Tenby and South Pembs Hospitals will remain open and operational until an agreement is made with the local GPs to take over these responsibilities, but I wasn't given a proper answer and just fed a load of waffle really, so I came away quite upset, but we really need to get the people in Tenby and surrounding areas to keep filling in these questionnaires, to let the Health Board know that we are opposing their proposals in the recent consultation document," she explained.

The town clerk, Mr. Andrew Davies, told members that the Health Board had declined an invitation to attend the recent meeting in the De Valence Pavilion, which the town council had hosted. They said they were not in a position to attend all the discussions in different towns in the area, but had a 'drop in' event arranged at Kilgetty Community Centre on Wednesday, October 24, from 2 to 7.30 pm, where people could go along and express their opinions.

Clr. Mrs. Christine Brown felt that it was very wrong that the Health Board should just be holding this 'drop in' event in Kilgetty alone, and said it was not fair to expect elderly people from Tenby and Saundersfoot to have to go out of their towns to make their feelings known about the Tenby MIU.

"Tenby and Saundersfoot, as major tourist towns, should be able to host these 'drop in' events too, I think its terrible how the Health Board are going about this. They don't want to know and are doing it their way and in the process not holding a proper consultation, and it's very disheartening," she said.

"We should write to them and object to their actions and also hand deliver the petition that is up and running to the Welsh Government at the Senedd.

"We can only hope that the doctors in the area oppose the main plans too," added Clr. Mrs. Brown.

Anyone who would like a copy of the consultation questionnaire to answer, or to deliver to their street, can collect from either the De Valence Pavilion or Tenby Library.