SIR,

On the evening of Saturday 7th April my grandson hurt his toe doing stunts on his scooter.

His mum took him to Monmouth hospital to get it checked, but they wouldn't even look at it.

She had to make a 36-mile round journey to Nevill Hall, where she had to wait for more than seven hours to be seen, when seen it took just 10 minutes to be sorted.

Why have we got a state-of-the-art hospital which cost a lot of money to build but where a simple injury cannot be treated?

When the hospital was on Hereford Road, you could go up there day or night and be seen, if they couldn't treat you then and only then would you be advised to go to Nevill Hall.

With the amount of people and proposed homes being built in Monmouth it is becoming essential that we should have an accident and emergency based at this state-of-the-art hospital.

I am sure that I am not alone in thinking this way.

Evelyn Jones

(Monmouth)