Letters to the editor

Rochelle Galloway
October 14 2016 - 6:00am
Those nearing end of life desire a place of pleasant outlook which is easily accessible for family members, says Dick James, of Launceston.
Those nearing end of life desire a place of pleasant outlook which is easily accessible for family members, says Dick James, of Launceston.

Palliative Centre

SURELY with the level of community support The Examiner has reported on, the government must now look sympathetically on the provision of a palliative centre in Launceston.   The community has spoken, taking serious issue with an earlier report obviously prepared at some distance from the stakeholders, the members of Northern communities. A centre in an upstairs, far ward in a hospital does not meet expectations.   Those nearing end of life desire a place of pleasant outlook, desirably in a garden setting, easily accessible for family members and removed from the hurly-burly of a hospital ward.

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Rochelle Galloway

Rochelle Galloway

The Examiner Deputy Editor

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