Beautiful Bellingen - a set on Flickr

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YouTube - Rally for Bellingen Hospital

YouTube - Rally for Bellingen Hospital

BELLO HOSPITAL PROTESTERS HEAR POLLIES POSITIONS : NBN

BELLO HOSPITAL PROTESTERS HEAR POLLIES POSITIONS : NBN

BELLO SONG FOR RALLY ON 24 JULY 2010

[Spoken:] 
There's a Bellingen businessman, lying, dying, 
and he gets himself up on one elbow, 
and he turns to the pollies, 
who are gathered 'round him and he says: 

[Sung:]
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

Lets keep acute care beds, Tebs,
Keep our acute care beds.
Recovery’s cheaper here, dear,
Recovery’s cheaper here.

All together now!
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

Bello’s right for babies too, Vahid,
Right for babies too.
Coffs’ great if things complicate, mate
Great if things complicate.

All together now!
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

We need ED all night, Haze,
Need ED all night.
Let those ambos just come, chum
Let those ambos just come.

All together now!
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

Give our theatre more to fix, Nics
Our theatre more to fix.
And x-rays too on call, and all
Xrays too on call

All together now!
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

Coffs’ in dire straits, Chris,
Coffs is in dire straits.
Let Bello share the weight, mate,
Let Bello share the weight

All together now!
Let me hospital be, you mob,
Let me hospital be.
We need our services here, sport,
Need our services here.

TRACEY K

 Tracy Kimber: re  Munro : (now 4yo). The pre and post natal care I received in Bellingen was incredible (Lyn, Trev and all the team). As a single mum with no family, the support was much needed and appreciated. I was born in Bellinger R. D. Hospital and although Munro had to be born in Coffs (what a horrible experience) wespent less than 24 hours there. Couldn't wait to get back to the nurturing nurses in Bellingen.

June 15

RACHAEL N

Rachael Noble: My mum was a nurse in Bellingen for over 40 years, beginning at the age of 16 living in the nurses quaters when Bellingen was a training hospital. She has always spoken very highly of Dr Dunn, sad to hear he is not well. What a brilliant man.

DIANNE W

Dianne Wall (nee Casey) Keep up the good work saving the BRDH. I worked in the office when Mr Curtis was secretary and before I went to Wagga to nurse. Joan Knight/Radford worked with me.

MERVYN AND SOPHIE

COUPLE IN BELLO HOSPITAL

Carmel Daly. 

Saw this in the Saturday's paper - great consideration for a lovely married couple.

Liz Stewart. 

real people real life real love.

Shannon Wake. 

My Awesome Nan & Pop!!!! Thanks for the story Graeme, and thanks for the photo Aunty Beth!

ALISON C

 Alison Carter: have just watched Prime News and Pia with her pleasing results. Here's hoping another 4 midwives can be found very soon. one step covered, now about the EM 24/7 and xray 7 days. With the re-opening of maternity will we get another new foetal monitor? BUT don't forget to tag whatever is bought for the particular cause or it will fade along that big black highway. Well done BHAG.

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

JIM BELSHAW'S NEW ENGLAND BLOG

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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.”

BELLINGEN HOSPITAL PROTEST

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