Fight the closure of baby heart units in Southern England

I'm going to go off half-cocked a little because I am not in possession of all the facts behind this seemingly insane idea to close down Southampton General Hospital's Baby Heart Unit.
See this link to Daily Echo story here for more.
As far as I am aware Southampton General is one of three baby heart units under review, one of the others is the Royal Brompton in London.
The official consultation period is underway and a decision is due at the end of the month and one of the units is going to close.
This is absolute madness in  my opinion. How can this government consider closing any baby heart unit, which save so many lives on a routine basis, in order to skim a little off the budget and make this bunch of asset strippers look like they're doing a good job with the economy.
A very long time ago in March 1975, I was born in the New Forest town of Lyndhurst, not very far from Southampton. Unluckily for me and family I was born with two small holes in my heart and an abnormal arotic valve, making life really quite difficult for me at the time.
Luckily for us the Southampton General Baby Heart unit was on our doorstep and thanks to the excellent work of that team of surgeons, doctors and nurses, I was operated on a year later and both holes were filled in, which is not too melodramatic to say gave me a lease of life I may not have been privileged enough to enjoy if the condition had gone undetected.
The valve was replaced, as planned, much later in 2007, by a team under the expert leadership of Marcus Haw, who is leading the campaign to keep the unit open.
I owe my life to that hospital, as well as a unfortunate lifetime allegiance to Southampton Football Club.
It makes no sense to me at all to close down any one of the units under review. If Southampton loses theirs parents will have to travel to London or even Bristol for treatment. As excellent as Bristol now is, it's not exactly down the road if you live in Southampton or further afield.
I don't understand why this proposal is even on the table and shows this government to be utterly out of touch with the reality of lives for many people in this country. What if a family with a sick child doesn't have a car, can't afford the travel, or the overnight accommodation that could be necessary. It already costs a fortune to park in a hospital, add to that a round trip of a couple of hundred miles in fuel alone and it becomes prohibitive.
It's simply all kinds of wrong and I hope there is enough pressure put on government to change this ludicrous and damaging kind of policy.