General News
31 August, 2024
Deficits fuel MP's health pledge trust fears
COMMUNITIES including Boort should not be misled by the State Government’s decision to backflip on proposed hospital mergers, said Murray Plains MP Peter Walsh. Mr Walsh said 22 the 23 regional Victorian health services were running at a loss...
COMMUNITIES including Boort should not be misled by the State Government’s decision to backflip on proposed hospital mergers, said Murray Plains MP Peter Walsh.
Mr Walsh said 22 the 23 regional Victorian health services were running at a loss. “(Premier) Jacinta Allan will force her cost-cutting mergers through, by hook or by crook. Don’t think for a minute you can believe anything she says to the contrary,” he said Mr Walsh, who is also Victorian leader of the Nationals, said the party had launched a petition www.handsoffourhospitals.com.au
“If just the billions of dollars in cost overruns on Melbourne’s raft of projects going nowhere fast was directed to areas where it is actually needed, such as health, education, our police ... you would see some immediate improvements and over the long haul a much better system,” he said.