I HAVE read with interest the letters complaining about York Hospital.

I visit this hospital every three months for tests and X rays and have done so for the last two years. In all those visits the service I have received has been slightly above excellent. If the moaners and whingers want their eyes opened they should visit Pontefract General Infirmery. My father-in-law was admitted there for four weeks. Every day of those four weeks my mother-in-law had to bathe him and take him to the toilet because the nursing staff were undermanned.

In the same hospital, black bin liners had to be moved so we could move his wheelchair to the bathroom. He had to be taken to Leeds for more tests because the machine in Pontefract was faulty and would take a number of days

to repair.

In an ideal world, people go to a gleaming hospital, are treated by immaculate nurses, and leave fit and healthy. But this is NOT an ideal world. So please open your eyes to reality and live in the real world.

Who once said that the British are never happy unless they are complaining?

Eric Young,

Pottery Lane,York.

Updated: 11:50 Friday, December 20, 2002