600 people marched through Tower Hamlets in protest against the proposed closure of the London Chest Hospital on February 11.
The hospital serves the area with the highest incidence of TB in Britain.
The local health authority wants to shift its services to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, which is already labouring under the recent closures of parts of its Mile End site and the closure of Bart's casualty in the City of London.
The anti-closure campaign has the support of both the Labour and the Liberal parties on the local council, and Tony Blair has pledged his support for the campaign. Cynics might relate this to council by-elections coming up.
More positively, the local Trades Council also supports the campaion and despite the very short building period for the march there were several union banners present.
A past high point of local health campaigning was when staff at the Bethnal Green geriatric hospital occupied on closure day and some wards continued to function "under staff control".