Whittington Hospital meeting at Highgate Society warned to expect ‘disturbance’
The Highgate Society is not the first place you’d imagine a raucous protest to take place.
But last Thursday, organisers of a public meeting at the society’s South Grove HQ to discuss the controversial Whittington Hospital sell-off plans received a warning from police to expect a “disturbance”.
As it happens, the Whittington Health meeting between residents and the hospital’s chief executive Dr Yi Mien Koh passed without a murmur of discontent.
But it seems tensions around the board’s plans to sell off a chunk of the Magdala Avenue site in Archway have not eased since the 5,000-strong protest march through Islington on March 16.
At the end of last week’s meeting, Dr Koh was oblivious to the police warning when informed by the Ham&High.
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“I had no idea,” she said. “I just came here straight from work.”
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