I WISH to comment on the article you published on May 21 regarding students and drug users dominating the sex clinics.

Dr Coker stated that the service was overstretched and could only allocate seven minutes to each client. My heart bleeds for him. I remember as a nurse when the only clinics in Lancaster out patients department were without appointment and available for more hours a week etc.

Surely it is Dr Coker himself who has reduced the service and not students and drug users that are to blame. Yet again drug users get a bad press.

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