This time last year, the local primary care trust said it planned toshut down his place of work, the Cambridge Young People's Service. ButSrinath and his colleagues soon began a campaign to save the 33-year-oldservice, which works with 800 young people each year.
For a while, it looked like they would succeed. "But in February, theprimary care trust said it had no choice other than to close theservice, because of the size of its deficit," recalls Srinath. "It tookus a while to recover - staff were shocked and patients agitated forsome time."
Hopes of reprieve were killed off last week, when health secretaryPatricia Hewitt approved the cuts proposed by Cambridge City and SouthCambridgeshire Primary Care Trust.
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