Most children describe  school holidays as their time to “have fun and play”.  However there are a group of dedicated young people who are spending today outside Bassetlaw Hospital dressed as skeletons  to promote their fears over the proposals to shift A&E resources and the Children’s Ward to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

Ten year old Kyra Mumby from Retford has written the poem below which perfectly expresses their concerns and worries:

Think of Me

Think of Me when you take away our A&E
Think of Me when I hurt my knee
Think of Me when I am alone in Doncaster with a broken bone
Think of Me when I am all Alone because Mum’s had no choice
And had to go home

The children are screaming and crying everywhere
Our Children’s Ward has gone but you don’t care
I am sat miles and miles away from home
I am scared and frightened, I am in pain because of my broken bone
 

The answer is simple for me you see
Please keep our services from Children to A&E
It’s where we were born and want it to stay
Please, Please consider me I’d say

I have been to Bassetlaw and to stop in
I can’t understand why you want to put it in the bin
It has saved my sisters and saved Me
Save our Hospital and stop drinking tea

I am Kyra I am only ten years old
By the time I’m 20 it will all be sold
Please Please doctors think and join in
We are all Set out to Win

By  Kyra Mumby
Age 10 years 4 months