POOL MUST GO APRIL 4:

Hydrotherapy patients will pay a huge price for the Wesley Hospital's $97 million redevelopment. The hospital's pool and auditorium will be demolished to make way for an eight-story acute care complex. The complex will boost in-patient bed numbers by 74. However, hundreds of patients who use the pool will have to find alternative venues for rehabilitation. Wesley Hospital general manager Gerard Wyvill said limited space and building restrictions meant the pool had to go. He said UnitingCare Health was ``exploring all options'' to relocate the centre elsewhere on the Auchenflower site. Kenmore's Jennifer Riggs said: ``People who pride themselves on their Christianity are letting their own side down. ``I wonder how often the decision makers come down and look at the people here and the people helped. ``Hospitals aren't set up as money making institutions.'' Peter Reeves, who first visited the pool last week for a chronic back injury, said the closure was ``a crying shame''. ``It's a valuable asset; I've only been here once and it's already helped me,'' Mr Reeves said. Mr Wyvill said hydrotherapy patients could use Uniting Care's Sinnamon Village aged care residence pool, council pools or public healthcare pools. But only patients of the Royal Brisbane Hospitals can use its pool and council pools are not set at the temperatures required for hydrotherapy.