Eileen McGovern, a member of SOAS, said returning “life-saving” emergency general surgery services to Swah was not a lost cause.
“We need this service, it’s life-saving, it’s crucial and it’s a right,” she said.
“I’m already 45 minutes from the hospital, you then try driving a critically ill patient in the back of the car when there’s no ambulance available… it is unacceptable.
“The people who are making these decisions do not live in Fermanagh, that is the very crucial point.”
The campaign group has recently taken a legal challenge against the Western Trust over the suspension of emergency general surgery at the hospital.
It follows comments made by the Western Trust board at a Stormont health committee briefing last November that when a service was paused there was an “inevitability” it won’t go back.
A Western Trust spokesperson said the comment referred to the trust being unable to go back to the emergency general service provided at Swah in 2022.
However since then, the trust has complied with standards set for emergency general surgery at Altnagelvin Hospital which covers the entire Western Trust area.