Labour Health Minister Jane Hutt must give a clear commitment that beds will be located at the proposed new Tenby Cottage Hospital.
That was the message from former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Wigley who was in Tenby this week.
Mr Wigley was visiting Tenby at the invitation of Llyr Hughes Griffiths, Plaid Cymru's prospective Assembly candidate for Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire and a leading member of CATCH (the Campaign for Action on Tenby Cottage Hospital).
Campaigners are becoming increasingly concerned that the Labour Health Minister has repeatedly failed to indicate whether any beds will be located at the hospital.
In a written answer to a series of questions tabled by Plaid Cymru AMs, Ms Hutt indicates that the emerging preferred option would only include integrated day therapy and care services with social services, outpatients, x-ray and a minor injury unit.
Speaking during his visit to the proposed site of the new hospital adjacent to Tenby Surgery on Wednesday Mr Wigley said: "Plaid Cymru is very concerned that the Labour Health Minister has failed to give any guarantees that beds will be provided at the proposed new hospital.
"Indeed, without the provision of beds I think it's quite misleading to describe the proposed building as a hospital at all. Labour will have a great deal to answer for if it fails to provide at least the same number of beds as are currently available at the existing hospital."
Llyr Hughes Griffiths, who has led numerous delegations to the National Assembly to press for a new hospital and for improved health services in Pembrokeshire added:
"One of the cornerstones of the CATCH campaign was to protect existing health services in the area, and if the existing beds are lost in this new development then it will be a retrograde step for health services in South East Pembrokeshire.
"Despite being initially led to believe that the long campaign for a new hospital had been won - it now seems that the real battle might only just be starting.
"Dafydd Wigley's support is a tremendous boost for our campaign and it further underlines Plaid Cymru's commitment to developing and improving the network of community hospitals in Wales. Wales has already lost a quarter of its hospital beds over the last 10 years and we must not allow this to continue. Pembrokeshire deserves better."