Bronwyn Pike: Hospital Crisis? It’s just a ‘local issue’
That’s the Health Minister’s response to the crisis facing Wonthaggi Hospital, according to the South Gippsland Sentinel-Times (20 June). As regional users of emergency health services await desperately needing funding, health bureaucrats disappear on holiday and the Minister passes the buck.
Currently straining under unprecedented demand for emergency services, the doctors and nurses of Wonthaggi Hospital are managing as best they can with the extreme workload. In such circumstances, patient care is bound to suffer.
But what has the Bracks Government done about it? They ordered a report - nine months ago! This isn’t crisis management; this is crisis perpetuation. Will the patients and doctors of South Gippsland have to hang on for a pre-election bribe to get the emergency services they deserve? In the meantime one health professional has some advice: ‘Don’t get sick in South Gippsland. Particularly not after hours.’
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