Letter: What about the children of Angola and Albania?

MILLIONS on waiting lists. Hospitals closed due to cash shortages. People being refused treatment for serious heart problems - then suddenly we spend large sums importing other nation's ill and wounded for long-stay treatment.

'Charity begins at home.' In this case large numbers have been paying their 'charity' to the Government for up to 50 years and more for this shabby treatment and may perhaps die if they wait any longer.

Had their been no waiting lists and plenty of funds it would be another story. Is this the way to score 'brownie points'? If so it does not wash with those waiting their delayed turn.

John C Burgoyne

Scarborough, North Yorks