Madam,

I have just read your letters page of last week, with the complaint about the new surgery facilities at Tywyn, which followed the previous week’s article where the health centre was criticised on its first week of opening. Your paper came through the door with a national daily which, on the front page had a extremely sad story about a young girl who had died in hospital over the border in England, whilst being operated on by candlelight because staff shortages meant they were unable to use the operating theatre. I feel the story of the girl’s death puts the whole situation in perspective and makes you appreciate that the Welsh NHS has just built us a new £5m hospital and surgery which we should be proud of. These minor hitches can and will be ironed out in time. Coincidentally, I needed to visit the surgery to take my wife for a blood test and entered at the main doors and walked through to the surgery which was on one level. We found it a wonderful modern building with all the modern electronic facilities and we were treated as usual by the friendly and helpful staff. This is a facility we who use it can be proud of and my wife and I will shout it from the rooftops.

Yours etc

George and Jacki Buckley

Tywyn.