"Removal of hoist"

As WestMARC in Yorker is a drop in service, I took our daughter, who is a wheelchair user and cannot walk or stand, to WestMARC this morning as we had quite an urgent issue with her wheelchair. I took along our sling, expecting them to have a hoist, but was told it had been removed for health and safety issues for staff.  I suffer from a sore back and was on my own with our daughter as my husband was at work, so the options I had were either to lift her myself as she cannot transfer, or go home and an engineer would be booked to come out.  

As our daughter only has the one wheelchair, we needed the issue resolved quickly so had no alternative but to lift her myself.  It seems totally ludicrous to remove a hoist from a facility which specialises in wheelchair repairs and is a drop in facility.  I sincerely hope whoever made the decision to remove this invaluable piece of equipment has a rethink, and quickly!