David Tranter,
Waimate

I hear on the rural health grapevine that specialist obstetrics and gynaecology services have been stopped in Whakatāne.

Have people stopped having children in the district?

As a rural health campaigner for over three decades, would it be too much for me to hope that the politicians and/or bureaucrats who came up with this lunatic decision explain their reasoning – if reasoning is the appropriate word.