JENNI McL

Jenni McLennan 

Oh man this is getting nasty - I know for a fact that the Lions have donated 10s of thousands of $$$ worth of equipment to our hospital. Makes my blood boil. THIS STINKS !!!!!!

JENNY E

 Jenny Edman: From what I remember some or most of these missing items were donated to the Bello hosp, so really no-one had the right to remove them, Rotary and Lions donated a lot of pieces of equiptment to our hospital over the years, so did local business houses, the missing equiptment should be returned to it'ts rightful home.

MARGARET G

 Margaret Glyde MR CHRIS CRAWFORD, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK HIM HOW ARE PEOPLE WHO NEED EMERGENCY TREATMENT TO GET TO AND FROM COFFS HARBOUR HOSPITAL WHEN THEY HAVE NO TRANSPORT

STEPHEN P

 Stephen Peirce I understand where poeple are coming from and agree that its crazy that the hosptial is on the brink of colapse, BUT If the items that have been removed that were donated to the hospital did not have conditions placed in writing you only have a moral leg to stand on, Chattles are treated differently in law

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SAVE BELLO HOSPITAL SONG

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About Save Bellingen Hospital Song

Written by: Kaitlyn Tomlinson, Danielle Tomlinson, Leah Daniel, Kelly Stoner. Performed by all the above with the gracious help of Pete Rundle on drums. A small group of Bellingen youth have come together to write a song about the spirit of Bellingen in an attempt to help the Bellingen Hospital Action Group in their efforts to save the hospital’s present services. The group has been collaborating with local singer-songwriting Kell Stoner and have come up with a song, exploring the story of the hospital through a historical perspective – collaborating on such aspects as the song’s structure, lyrics, recording, music and instrumentation. In order to write the song the group researched local history through the library and the historical society and did a lot of talking to local people of the area that have lived here their whole lives and whose families have lived here for generations. After collecting initial information and inspiration, the song was written over a bunch of sessions over a couple of months –many of the lines in the song actually come from conversations with locals about times past... With so much inspiration – the first draft of the song was 8 verses long – over 6 minutes! But after much deliberation and editing it was cut down to the most important 5 – there was so much information they wanted to put in – and it still extends to 4 minutes. Most of the tracks in the recording were also played by the young songwriters – including vocals, backing vocals piano and flute. Thanks so much to the Bellingen Health Action Group who instigated this project, especially Kaye Foran, and the Bellingen and Seaboard Youth Services who supported it along the way! Save Bellingen Hospital Song They say the river was so deep Your ears would almost burst And they followed it through the dark woods To find a dream of red gold And they floated it back down the rover Like the red tears, of the old ones Settlement had begun And with the men came the women, And the children that they bore Looking around they settled down, Slab hut, dirt floor And the midwife journeyed through the deep black scrub She would be there, horseback mountains rivers flood chorus Because a town is built of wood and stone But it takes commitment to build a home The river changes, but it still flows on Community grows, but it still stays strong And a hospital was built, from the pockets of the people, They paid a shilling a week, to keep it free And the health care scheme, was so successful It spread across the state and the country too And there were, dances in the halls They rode their pushbikes to the theatre And the boats made their way All the way up the river But you could have heard a pin drop The day the hippies came to town Farmer’s jaws hit the floor When a flood of colour arrived at the pub door Nowdays town’s more a mixed back of faces Farmers, life stylers, old local names Self-sustainers, tree changers And town brings them in from a far chorus Because a town is built of wood and stone But it takes commitment to build a home The river changes, but it still flows on Community grows, but it still stays strong Now the powers that be, want to scale that hospital right right down But the people of this town, like to stand their ground Because if you take away the foundation stones on which a community leans You take away more than wood and stone You take away a sense of community You take away a sense of unity chorus Because a town is built of wood and stone But it takes commitment to build a home It takes so many hands to build While it takes so few to tear it down It takes so many hands to build While it takes so few to tear it down cause we have so many hands to hold what it too so long to build cause we have so many hands to hold what we fought so long to keep we have so many hands to hold we have so many hands to hold

SOLVEIG L

Solveig Larsen Thanks to Peter Clarke for filming this for us.. video available on Youtube.. Please support the empowerment of people and the values we all hold dear, but which are quickly being eroded by Bureocracy and consumerism. Saving this hospital is a symbol of 

the recognition of personal freedom and dignity, and the care we each deserve.

ANNE F-B

Anne Foyer-Boyd-  

And if you do make it to coffs you could be lucky to get a bed

SUSANNAH MCL

Susannah McLennan

Like me on Monday night. I arrived at Bellingen hospital (8 minute drive from home) after experiencing severe breathing difficulties...thought it was an asthma attack and have since discovered it was a collapsed lung. Would not have made it to Coffs Hospital in time!

DR LITTLE

 The head of the hospital’s medical staff council, Dr Deidre Little, accused the Health Minister, Carmel Tebbett, of by default supporting the closure of acute care beds, midwifery and overnight accident and emergency services. What we say to NCAHS is "What you are doing is badly done,” Dr Little said. “If the service is axed and these people have to instead go to Coffs Harbour, I am worried that some won’t make it.”

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CELY O'N

Cely O'Neill " I HAVE BEEN TO BELLO HOSPITAL AND SURVIVED "....I've had 4 small ops at BELLO and I can't praise the staff enough....

 

If it wasn't for BELLO, I don't know how long I would have had to wait to get into Coffs....My gyno does his day ops at BELLO.....I have another checkup next week and I'm hoping that I won't need another...if I do I know that it will be at BELLO's beautiful hospital...FYI, my short hair was done for The Worlds Greatest Shave..

ELAINE C

Elaine Cowin 

i was born at Bellingen Hospital in 1959, what a beautiful place to be born.

CINDY GEE

Cindy Gee 

i did my sen training at bello in 1976 and i was also born there in 1958. keep bello alive

JENNY E

Jenny Edman 

I worked at Bellingen Hospital from 62-64, Domestic staff, that was when the Hospital was a training hospital and a lot of well trained nurses passed out her doors

VANESSA M-A

Vanessa Miller-Aucote:  

We had to take our 17 month old bub to Bello hospital at 10.30 last night, the staff were wonderful as always. It definitely would've have been a much worse situation if we'd had to travel to Coffs, then home again at 2am. I doubt we would have even been seen by 2am in Coffs.
We NEED a hospital here ~ What are they thinking??

4 MAY 2010  at 16:42 

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YouTube - North Coast Hospital Job Cuts and Belligen Hospital

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