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Daily Record
National
Stephen Norris

Newton Stewart hospital campaigners demand urgent summit with NHS Dumfries and Galloway chiefs

Hospital campaigners are demanding an urgent summit with health board chiefs following a packed public meeting in Newton Stewart on Saturday.

More than 200 people attended the Riverside Centre to hear a series of speakers call for the town’s hospital to be reopened.

A convoy of tractors – one towing a hospital bed and “patient” – joined the protest after making the 18-mile trip from Whithorn.

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