SENIOR officials from Betsi Cadwaladr have visited Tywyn and paid tribute to local healthcare campaigners.

Members of the health board, including the chair Peter Higson and chief executive Gary Doherty, have been given a tour of Tywyn Community Hospital to see the new facilities.

BCUHB’s monthly meeting of the board met at Neuadd Pendre, during which members were thanked publicly by prominent local campaigner, Morgan L Vaughan MBE.

Mr Vaughan, who is chairman of the Tywyn and District Memorial Hospital Appeal Fund, said: “Let me say thanks to those who should be thanked for what we have here in Tywyn and District; chief officers and members of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board who have been most supportive of our needs for the last 11 or 12 years.

“The former hospital area has now been completely transformed, and will certainly give good value for money for those patients who need the service in that area.”

Dr Higson, paid tribute to Mr Vaughan who, along with other members of the Fund, has helped to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds since the organisation was established in the 1970s.

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