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Join our Hospital for Heroes Crusade

OUR heroic soldiers lay down their lives to fight for Britain, taking to the battlefield in harsh and unforgiving conditions for months on end.

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ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL

16.08.08, 11:17am

that these men are women are treated alongside civilians. They most definately should have their own hospitals, if for nothing else than to feel valued.
This miserable government will make sure they themselves are looked after, don't you worry.

Isn't life brilliant under NuLabour.Notttttttttttttt !
What a mess we are in.

• Posted by: Jac16 • Report Comment

HOSPITAL FOR HEROES

14.08.08, 2:32pm

This government makes me sick, hospitals for our brave soldiers, airmen and sailors should be a priority after all they are laying down their lives in a war that is not anything to do with us.

If footballers can be paid obscene amounts of money just for kicking a ball around a field, why can't our men and women in the forces have proper medical treatment - they are the heroes not footballers (half of whom can't string two words together) or sportsmen/women or entertainers.

Instead of wasting millions on a new Olympic stadium for 2012 - build decent hospitals for our forces and given them proper treatment/compensation/homes, etc.

Show them that the ordinary citizen cares.

• Posted by: lorna69 • Report Comment

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HOSPITAL FOR HEROES CRUSADE

14.08.08, 12:45pm

I find it disgusting that we can send our troops to war yet not provide military hospitals for them to recover in when injured.

I was unfortunate to have a week in a military hospital in the 70's and the treatment was superb

Military personnel should never be treated on NHS wards. The military should look after it's own.

Our MP's are too busy claiming their expenses to worry about squaddies health. Their lives aren't on the line only their reputations and you can recover form that.

Peter Wilks

• Posted by: pete61 • Report Comment

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HOSPITALS FOR HEROES CRUSADE; SEVERAL ARE STEAMING TO THE PERSIAN GULF RIGHT NOW EQUIPPED WITH ON BOARD HOSPITALS AND ON BOARD H-BOMBS

14.08.08, 11:47am


- Which is precisely where they should be; along side the brave chappies who are risking their lives and risking the start of World War lll . - As we write, the greatest deployment of warships since 1991 is Persian Gulf-bound; soon to show how important hospitals are for both CIVILIANS and the military.
- The sneak Georgian raid by the military on the predominately Russian civilian population in Ossetia, where at least 5,000 have perished, is a case in point.
Of course we need more hospitals, of EVERY kind, especially when millions are about to die in war!

• Posted by: Nevarti • Report Comment

HASLAR

14.08.08, 10:02am


Having spent some time in The Royal Haslar in the early 70s i found it a very special place where the wards were full of servicemen who were fighting many problems but with the true grit that only an ex military person can understand.

one guy in the next bed to me was dying from gas gangrene after a diving accident but would laugh and joke with the rest of us, the mentality of service personell is completely different from civilian patients and i think aids a faster recovery.

the government should be ashamed of themselves in that they ask these young men and women to risk their lives in the service of the queen but are not afforded their right to proper medical care.

• Posted by: billmcc • Report Comment

A VERY WORTHY CAUSE INDEED

13.08.08, 8:40am

And unlike our Goverment WE really do care about our servicemne , unlike.........

One Mr Gordon Brown

Peter Viggers (Gosport) (Con): When the servicemen and women of other nations are exposed to injury, they are given the best possible medical treatment, often in military hospitals, whereas ours are handed over to the national health service. Does the Prime Minister recognise that moving Defence Medical Services to Birmingham has not worked and will not work in future? Will he yield to overwhelming pressure indicating that our only military hospital, the Haslar hospital in Gosport, should be retained?

The Prime Minister: I simply do not agree with the hon. Gentleman at all. First, I pay tribute to the work that is done by Defence Medical Services and to the work that the NHS is doing in looking after those soldiers who are injured.

• Posted by: HarriUK • Report Comment

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