.saveourswah campaigners deliver over 30,000 letters opposing plans to remove emergency general surgery from South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen
The chairman of SOAS, Reggie Ferguson, said the Trust had asked for alternative proposals to its plan to remove surgery.
The SOAS campaign group believes emergency surgery can be saved at SWAH and have proposed a five-point plan:Restore urgent and emergency surgical services at SWAH with Department of Health assistance on rotas According to the Western Trust, SWAH deals with about five such cases a day and that is not enough to sustain a dedicated emergency general surgical team.
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