Sir,
When visiting us from the Midlands, recently, our 87-year-old family friend fell when walking in Saundersfoot and I would like to thank the following people for their help:
1. Two passing cyclists who picked him up and escorted him to the local surgery and who later called to see how he was.
2. The kind staff who treated him there.
3. The excellent doctor and staff at Withybush Hospital, where he was examined and found to have a torn muscle and broken bone in his shoulder and one badly injured hand together with one less injured one.
4. The equally excellent, kind and caring nurses at the Tenby New Cottage Hospital, who dressed his hands for several days until his family fetched him home to the Midlands.
However, whilst writing, I should also like to express our disappointment when informed that, although there is an X-ray machine in Tenby, there was no doctor to attend to it (this was on a weekday) and that I would consequently have to take our 87-year-old all the way to Haverfordwest in his confused and shaken state.
It seems ridiculous that so much has been spent on the wonderful premises in Tenby, even without the necessary beds, and that they subsequently seem to be so underused. As a diabetic, I have myself been waiting more than two years for the 'essential' 'annual' eye and foot checks supposedly available there.
When will things improve?
Elizabeth J. Watts.