Repoen facility
Recently, Hawaii Care Choices Pohai Malama facility closed its operations (Tribune-Herald, Nov. 3). A plea for kokua to all of you, as well as businesses and corporations, to help reopen Hawaii Care Choices Pohai Malama facility.
Partnerships with Hawaii Care Choices would provide a wide range of benefits for everyone in the community, as well as provide tax benefits for the donors. It’s a win-win situation.
While our experience staying at Pohai Malama facility, my husband was able to receive outstanding medical care from its wonderful, caring staff and management in the most beautiful state-of-the-art facility. I was also allowed to stay with him at the facility.
Management and staff were at our beck and call. Experiencing excruciating pain, he was made comfortable, because Pohai Malama focuses on exceptional pain management care that isn’t offered elsewhere.
My husband told me that this was the very best decision we made for us. There is no other facility in the state that is comparable to Pohai Malama.
Initially, our intention was to have my husband pass away at home. This would require expert medical care that provided comfort for my husband. His doctor recommended that he be admitted to Pohai Malama. That was the best move that we made.
I urge all of you to support Hawaii Care Choices Pohai Malama facility through financial assistance and patient usage, so it can again reopen and provide their much-needed services.
So, please donate to a very worthy cause: Hawaii Care Choices Pohai Malama. Let’s band together and reopen Pohai Malama.
Emma Sousa
Hilo
‘Nanny state’
I agree wholeheartedly with Robin McDuff’s Dec. 1 letter to the editor (Your Views, Tribune-Herald) about the county always doing their best to be sure we can’t see the magnificent lava flows periodically happening here on the Big Island.
In this instance, the viewing area on Saddle Road is ideal — accessible, reasonably safe, large and close to both sides of the island.
Mauna Loa doesn’t erupt very often, and many people who have lived here all of their lives have not seen it do so, and many of us older folks will probably not be alive next time.
These eruptions are a deeply meaningful event for many of us on so many levels.
This attitude from the same county that doesn’t address so many other health and safety issues is ridiculous. We all want to see this event. It’s one of the reasons some of us live here.
Stop this nanny state nonsense, and get out of the way of the citizens of Hawaii Island who need and deserve and have the right to experience this awesome event!
Laura Buck
Volcano
