HUNDREDS of people attended an open day staged to showcase Airedale General Hospital's endoscopy and theatre departments.

Between 300 and 400 people of all ages visited the departments during the event.

A spokesman for Airedale said: "Last year our staff thought they'd had about 300 visitors, but they think they had a few more this time as it was busy all the time, there was no lull.

"It was very family oriented with a good mixture of adults and children.

"There were quite a lot of different things for the children to do. In the operating theatres they could dress up in scrubs and we had brought people in to apply wound make-up to make it look as if they had cuts and bruises."

He said many of the adults who visited attended the event because they have children, friends or relatives due to undergo procedures in these departments.

He added: "There was a lot of interest in our orthopaedic scans, probably because of the numbers of people who are having hip and knee replacement operations."