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Operating Theatre To Be Upgraded

Steph Cook MP welcomes $250,000 in funding to facilitate long-overdue upgrades to Young Hospital’s operating theatre.

This Rural Health Month, we’re reminded that rural and regional communities miss out on $848 per person in healthcare funding each year. Any move toward closing this gap and delivering high-quality healthcare to our towns and villages is a step in the right direction.

 

 

The addition of an endoscopy reprocessing system will ease pressure on larger hospitals such as Wagga Wagga Base Hospital and allow more patients to recover close to their home.

However, let me be very clear once again: we need significant investment into the Cootamundra Hospital and a strengthening – not slashing – of the services offered there.

 

 

With residents of the township of Cootamundra and surrounding villages still waiting for updates on their hospital’s future, I’m concerned people will be forced to travel to Young for safe, modern theatre services, instead of getting the care they deserve locally.

It’s not enough to simply shift services; all our communities need sustainable, fully resourced healthcare facilities across the district. We must focus on strengthening, not slashing, vital healthcare services.

 

 

 

NSW Health continues its stakeholder consultations, including proposed service rollbacks that will impact theatre, maternity and pathology at Cootamundra Hospital. With the Murrumbidgee Local Health District holding their Annual Public Meeting on 21 November, I hope we’ll see a comprehensive plan that meets the needs and supports the aspirations of every town in our electorate, with a clear focus on the needs of the Cootamundra community.

 

 

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