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Gerry Wyvill
General Manager
The Wesley Hospital


Dear Mr Wyvill,

I am a longtime supporter of the hydrotherapy facility provided by the Wesley hospital, and I was disgusted and outraged to discover that you intend to close the pool for financial reasons.

As a Christian organization, it seems wholly unethical that Uniting Care would place emphasis only on those forms of treatment that offer a profit margin and ignore the plights of the unfortunate few who do not have a profit-worthy illness. Your closing down of this unique facility will effect the thousands of patients whose lives have been enhanced by this hard-to-get therapy.

Corporate responsibility and ethical practices would dictate that all people who are sick be given a fair go, provided with equal access to treatment services and not be treated simply as a means-to-an-end, that end being your bottom line. The nature of certain illnesses means they can be treated quickly in a production line manner. The many people who use the Wesley hydrotherapy clinic do not fall into this category. Rather, we are the 3-year old children who will never walk unaided, the cerebal palsy sufferers who only experience freedom in the water, the old and frail who's sole form of exercise must be water-based, the cancer-sufferers, the disabled, the immobile and the chronic pain sufferer.

And we demand to be heard.

Sincerely,





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