WITH the influx of asylum-seekers into all parts of our country which is already over populated in many parts, you would have to be a supreme optimist in thinking that new hospitals such as the one being built in Worcester will be able to cope with the ever increasing demand.

People in Worcester have been treated in ambulances because of bed and trolley inadequacies and this in the middle of summer.

Yet, despite all this, we read that health bosses are being blitzed with applications to work at Worcester's new hospital.

Let's hope they have got this right because what they have claimed in the past about our existing hospitals has been more to allay public unrest rather than factual matter.

Health care is of primary importance and the need is for nurses and consultants, not the hangers-on who strut around looking important and contribute nothing.

D PARKER,

Worcester.