Liz Roe, of Bayard’s Cove, Dartmouth, writes:

I found the letter from David Drury in last week’s Chronicle very sad, since despite all the rhetoric from the clinical ­commissioning group and Patients Participation Group, Mr Drury writes very clearly of the dangers of Dartmouth not having a minor injuries unit.

I can add my own ­experience, when Richard, an experienced nurse in the MIU at Dartmouth Hospital, ­diagnosed that I had skin ­cancer and sent me to Dr Uhr Delia, who without delay sent me to Torbay Hospital, where I was treated many times for this condition before being declared cured.

Dartmouth Hospital is to close and this was decided a long time ago – even when so many of us attended the meetings in Dartmouth Academy the ­decision to close the hospital had been made. I would have felt less cheated if we had been told the facts more than two years ago. When our MIU was closed, we were promised it would reopen when new staff had been trained, but they were never appointed.

We have a wonderful hospital here. Why are we allowing our greatest medical facility in Dartmouth to be closed?

As previous Friends of Dartmouth Hospital, we raised a great deal of money to help the it, including building and equipping a new annexe; an X-ray machine, which has been removed, hence an X-ray means travelling to Totnes Hospital where our Dartmouth radiologist is now working. Where is our X-ray machine?

I suppose this is the softening-up process for their crafty plans to give us no option than to accept their plans. Please understand that there is only one reason for closing our ­hospital – money. The site is worth an incredible amount, but we are told this money will be used elsewhere in the NHS. Why could it not be used to help our poor medical service, desperate as it is, with doctors seemingly only working part time.

I wonder if adequate provision has been made to cover the number of beds in Dartmouth Hospital at the private nursing home at the top of town, with appropriate accommodation for an MIU and X-ray facilities? Or are we once again being conned into believing all will be well when the truth is that we shall have the minimum of cover and will be required to travel to Newton Abbot or Totnes.

Perhaps this is not all: will we at some point also be denied care from Torbay Hospital?

Come on Dartmouth, let’s rise up and demand fair health cover for our town.