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Jane is fictitious but her words were very real and can often be heard in conversations across the villages and towns of the Bega Valley and beyond.

She represents the many young women of the Far South Coast who were so cruelly disadvantaged over the closure of maternity service at Pambula District Hospital.

Jane speaks out against what she sees as the degradation of human rights that resulted from actions taken by the NSW Health Department under the leadership of The Hon. John Della Bosca BA MLC, The Hon. Barbara Perry, The Hon. John Hatzistergos, and The Hon.Carmel Tebbutt.

During 2008, 2009 and 2010 she wrote 20 letters to Health Ministers Della Bosca, Perry, Hatzistergos and Tebutt in the hope that they might begin to see the plight she and her friends faced. None of her letters were answered.

 

Read Jane's earlier letters, none of which were ever answered

1. Please let me have my baby in Pambula Hospital	2. There's been a silly mistake. Can you please fix it?
3. The new hospital in Bega won't be built for a while	4. Having a baby should be a joyous occasion
5. I don't want to disappoint my twins	6. Will the locum have time to read my notes?
7. My own doctor knows me and what to do if I have trouble	8. My girlfriends and I trust our local GPs and nurses
9. I reckon there has been some unfair trickery going on	10. The Auxillary was talking about our nurses leaving
11. The 'critical mass' is a 'critical mess'	12. Please visit us and listen to our ideas
13. Please improve paediatrics and dentistry at Pambula soon	14.Please encourage health bureaucrats to play fair
15. Do you really enjoy your job as Health Minister?	16. Please come to our meeting
17. My last letter to John "Tweedledumb" Dela Bosca	18. Acting Minister Hatzistergos - you can prevent a potential death
19. I'm glad to see you're on Emily's List Ms Tebbutt	20. Jane's final letter.