Board Rescinds Closure Motion... Local Community wins a victory 20 July 1999 Report by Takver At its monthly meeting, the Board of the Moreland Community Health Service decided to rescind its decision to close the medical service. More than 40 members of the community were present at the announcement of the decision. This followed an hour of public discussion between the board and concerned members of the community and an hour of private discussion by the board. A community campaign had built momentum with a 10 day community picket, a well attended public meeting on July 7 of more than 300 people which passed resolutions unanimously to maintain the medical service, and the establishment of weekly meetings of Save Our Community Medical Service. It is now important for the community and the Board to work together to find solutions and find a way to keep and expand our community medical service. The Service is presently looking for another doctor..... The Save Our Community Medical Service will continue to meet weekly on Tuesdays at 7.00pm at Warr Park Community Centre, DeCarle St, Brunswick, and will hear weekly reports from our representatives on the working party. All welcome. We are also organising public rallies on community health funding, and will be trying to organise a delegation to the State and Federal Health Ministers. This is a significant victory for the Moreland Community. Now we have an opportunity to find a way to keep our medical service open and to take up funding issues with the State and Federal Government. -- Takver Takver's Soapbox: http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbox/index.htm War on the Wharfies - Radical Tradition, an Aussie History Page http://members.xoom.com/takver/history/index.htm Visit the People's Justice Alliance: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pjan/ -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink