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DEFEND Hospital! rally: March 19, 11am from St Hospital, Church Lane, London HOSPITAL workers, consultants, porters, domestics, nurses and midwives joined with the public outside the South London Hospital on International Women's Day to publicise the threat to the hospital and to get support for the march and rally on Saturday March 19.
Ine workers provided an empty bed to highlight the 850 beds which have already been lost in the District, and a skeleton as a stark reminder of what health cuts and hospital closures mean.
Support for the campaign is growing daily. Saturday meetings in shopping areas have brought widespread support. Thousands are signing petitions. The hospital workers are making banners and badges and meeting regularly to plan, future action.
The South London is just one of many London hospitals scheduled tor the chop. Last week a trial period of experimenting with prescribing generic drugs instead of brand name drugs showed that over £30 million a year could be saved on the NHS budget money which should be used to keep the working class healthy instead of the drug companies wealthy.
But, instead of changing March to March and Benedict's SW17 UPE the prescription practices, Fowler is cutting beds and closing hospitals instead.
The dismantling of the NHS, coupled with the leak of Cabinet papers which give a clear picture of how the Tories see women (in the home, caring for the young, old and ill), make the fightback on health and welfare cuts the most important arena for fighting women's The demonstration. outside the South Loncon Hospital shows the way forward - workers and public united to stop the cuts and kick out the Tories.