With reference to your piece in the Argus (Friday August 8) I was taken to the A&E department in February, after waking up in the night suffering shortness of breath.

I was taken straight into resuscitation, given an X-ray and told I had water on the lungs. Further examination diagnosed heart failure.

I was then taken to the cardiac ward and all this in the space of three hours.

I spent the next week on the ward and can only sing praises for the staff and doctors, Yes there were moans about the food, but as I said, this was a hospital not a hotel. I must say I had no complaint whatsoever.

Yes there were some times when they were short staffed, but that happens. I felt 100 per cent in safe hands, and am still being treated at the county as an out-patient, and am very satisfied.

Paul-John Harris, Metcalfe Avenue, Newhaven