SIX elderly patients were snatched St Benedict's hospital South London by Health administrators on Tuesday morning pickets arrived padlock and surround the ospital gates.
St Benedict's, which has 91 remaining patients, has been occupied ince the begining of the when the Merton sutton and Wandsworth rea Health Authority anunced decision to Be the hospital. no simular lities for elderly pants in the area, the oclation has been backby the health d the Royal College of ursine Stall were notified management intendaremove patients forat 4pm on Tuesday but the lift by lift by private ambulance began at 10.30.
Over a hundred pickets were rapidly mobilised by the occupation committee, entrance to the hospital blocked. Police said they only allow. two pickets on the gate, but couldn't shift the crowd who surrounded it.
The staff agreed to the gates in the when manage ment obtained a court injunction. The Area Health Authority said that no further patients would be removed Thursday 11 September so that the unions could discisambulance staff.
'Our hope says Arthur Hautot, secretary of the occupaton committee, that the ambulance workers will refuse to hospitals pater hospitals unless St Benedict's future is secured.
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