AS part of Hywel Dda’s two-day Extraordinary meeting, the health board has voted to remove general emergency services from Haverfordwest’s Withybush hospital, sparking outrage from local Senedd Member Paul Davies.

“I’m appalled that Hywel Dda University Health Board has voted to remove general emergency services from Withybush hospital – but I’m not surprised,” Paul Davies MS posted on his Facebook page.

“The Health Board is obsessed with removing services from Pembrokeshire and has spent years downgrading and removing services from Withybush hospital,” continued the Welsh Conservative Senedd Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire.

“As one constituent has rightly said, the Board should be rebranded the Carmarthenshire Health Board, as it continues to strip assets from other hospitals in west Wales.

“Removing general emergency services critically undermines the sustainability of Withybush hospital’s A and E department and will result in patients having to be transported for urgent treatment. This is not acceptable.

Mr Davies added: “I will be taking this to the Welsh Government and urging Ministers to intervene and stop the Health Board from making this catastrophic decision.”