Workers and sufferers at St John’s Hospital in Livingston might lose the hospital’s store as the shop is ready to close down by the top of July.
Workers on the hospital store, apprehensive they may lose their jobs, arrange a petition to reserve it.
The shop is owned by the group Compass and operates out of a small retail outlet in St John’s.
No tenant has been discovered for the house if and when Compass terminates their lease on the finish of July.
Aris Tyrothoulakis, web site director, St John’s Hospital, stated: “The present store tenant has served discover that they're terminating the lease on the finish of July 2022.
“We're presently within the strategy of discovering a brand new tenant to exchange the service as quickly as doable.
“The store is one in every of a number of areas within the hospital for employees and sufferers to purchase food and drinks together with the canteen and the café store, and different retailers that promote a variety of merchandise are inside strolling distance.”
Regardless of with the ability to entry meals from different retailers within the hospital, workers and sufferers will likely be unable to buy gadgets like toiletries, magazines, or different miscellaneous items.
One involved worker from St John’s stated: “The store could be costly, however for lots of sufferers within the hospital, it’s all they've – you solely need to see what number of signatures the petition has acquired to this point to know that.
“As a member I take advantage of the store a few instances per week a minimum of, it’s handy for me nevertheless it’s vital for sufferers that don’t have any guests or outdoors assist.
“Sufferers can’t go away hospital grounds, and even when they had been capable of, a whole lot of them wouldn’t be capable to make it to the Scotmid up the highway and up a set of stairs.
“As workers we actually don’t have sufficient time to stand up there.
“I’m pleasant with a number of of the women within the store, there’s a number of workers who’ve been there for a lot of years now, and also you get to know individuals. I don’t need to see them made redundant.
“All through lockdown they by no means as soon as closed – they ran on diminished hours, however they made the additional effort to all the time keep open for sufferers and workers – we'd like a store.”
The petition to avoid wasting the store is obtainable at each the until within the retailer and within the Howden Cafe, additionally within the hospital.
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