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Daily Record
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Stuart Gillespie

Plea to reopen Dumfries and Galloway's cottage hospitals

Councillors are calling for the region’s cottage hospitals to be reopened.

The Kirkcudbright and Newton Stewart facilities, as well as those in Langholm and Moffat, were mothballed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But the independent group of councillors is urging regional NHS chief Jeff Ace to reopen them to ease pressure on the health and social care system.

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