It disgusts me to believe that our government is even contemplates reducing essential hospital services.

I am a dialysis patient, attending for treatment three days a week.

If our decision makers could only observe the staff having to, at times, run, to attend to a patient's needs and the overall stressful working conditions - yet they want to reduce already minimum staffing levels.

At times it is not possible to change a patient's allocated time because of lack of space and staff. Further reductions will make the system virtually unworkable.

Unfortunately I am too old to have a kidney transplant, so the only alternatives are dialysis or death. I am not alone in this situation.

Who is to make the decision to put us down like a rabid animal?

Yours in disgust.

— GRAEME PARKER, Hadspen.