Plaid Councillor Dyfrig Thomas said: “The people of Llanelli are horrified to receive the news that Prince Philip Hospital may lose its Accident and Emergency Unit. Under the present climate this may not have come as a complete surprise. However this will not only cause inconvenience and delay in treatment, it could very well lead to tragic loss of lives.”
It was only last April during the Assembly Election campaign that Keith Davies our current Assembly Member and the Labour Party were accusing Plaid of baseless allegations and scaremongering when Plaid Cymru warned the electorate that the A & E services were under threat.
Cllr Thomas continued “The Labour Health and Social Services Minister, Lesley Griffiths, has said clearly that she runs the NHS in Wales and that the buck stops with her. That is a clear line of national accountability. Whilst it may suit local Labour politicians in this instance, to divert responsibility from the Assembly, there is no doubt that it is with the Labour Government of Wales that the ultimate responsibility lies.”
In 2007 Plaid’s Helen Mary Jones played a leading role in ensuring that the Accident and Emergency services at Prince Philip Hospital would be retained as a condition of the One Wales agreement between Labour and Plaid. That coalition proved to be very successful over the four year term of the last Welsh Government. Now left to their own devices the Labour Party in Cardiff Bay are putting our A & E services under threat again.
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