Blacktown hospital has been in need of an urgent upgrade for years. There was a $150 million plan in place to add 100 more beds, plus new renal and cancer units but now it's not going to happen because that money is going to the bush instead. Why? Because Julia Gillard made a deal with the Independents that she would channel health money to regional areas and now she has. Blacktown has the highest demand for health services in New South Wales with the highest rates of cardiovascular and renal disease in Sydney. They have sick people lying in chairs because there are no beds.
Our NSW hospitals are almost at third world level. Blacktown, Northern Sydney, Camden and Campbelltown were on the list for urgent funding, along with many others, but now they won't get any.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon said metropolitan services would not suffer. "Our health reforms mean that for the first time, we will be taking on 60 per cent of capital infrastructure costs of hospitals across the country." Let's hope she can do something, it's way past crisis point.
What the NSW Labor government has done to our city of Sydney and the whole state is unforgivable - the millions of dollars they have wasted over the years could have built new hospitals and upgraded others. Of course no one is accountable but those responsible should be sent to gaol - they simply got away with murder.
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