Please excuse if this is a replication, or remove if it is against any of Pprune's rules. It is of concern and might be of interest to the users of this Forum, though we hope that nobody has the need.
Copy of a letter recieved, thought it might get some results here.
Although the ref is to soldiers, (JT and NV were), both sentiment, and petition, however applies to all members of the Armed Services.
From: Julian Thompson
To: Nick Vaux
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject: Petition to re-instate military hospitals
If you have one to two minutes and agree with this could you please
sign the petition at the link below?
For every death you hear about in Iraq or Afghanistan there are
countless more casualties that never get reported in the news. The
current situation sees injured soldiers being brought back to the UK and put in random hospitals, often away from where their friends and family live.
These soldiers, who are often on their own, are put in wards with normal
civilian patients who have no concept of the environment they have just been extracted from. There have also been a number of cases of these injured soldiers being verbally abused by Islamic civilian patients when they
realise they have just returned from Iraq/Afghanistan.
Military Hospitals in the UK are needed so that injured soldiers can
be cared for in a safe and dignified environment with staff and fellow
patients who understand the situation that they have just returned from.
Please take one or two minutes to fill out the Downing Street petition
on behalf of our injured soldiers bearing in mind we all know what the
damage of war can do. Our comrades returning from Iraq & Afghanistan with
horrific injuries to a health care situation that is a joke. With our troops
being deployed in greater numbers we must go back to the dedicated care that they fully deserve - so please lend your support to the petition to the
PrimeMinister on the Downing Street Petition Web site.
The petition is:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to bring back
dedicated
Military Hospitals to provide adequate facilities (non NHS) for members
of
the Armed Forces who are injured or disabled in the course of their
duties'
Please visit before the close on 6th August 2007.
If you do sign you will receive an email from No 10 with a link to
confirm
your signature.
PLEASE PASS ON TO AS MANY CONTACTS IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AS YOU SEE FIT
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Forces-Hospitals/