{"id":1454,"date":"2019-02-05T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:59:35","slug":"labor-will-build-the-eurobodalla-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/labor-will-build-the-eurobodalla-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR WILL BUILD THE EUROBODALLA HOSPITAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"intro\" class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"content\">\nA Shorten Labor Government will boost health services for people in the Eurobodalla Shire by investing $25 million to help build a new Eurobodalla Hospital.<br \/>\nOur $25 million commitment is part of Labor\u2019s Fair Go Action Plan to protect Medicare and fix our hospitals, and is on top of a $175 million commitment by the NSW Labor Opposition, because only Labor \u2013 state and federal \u2013 can be trusted to fix NSW hospitals.<br \/>\nPeople in the Eurobodalla Shire \u2013 from South Durras to Tilba Tilba \u2013 deserve the same access to vital hospital care as people in Sydney and larger regions.<br \/>\nBut thanks to the Liberals\u2019 cuts and neglect, Eurobodalla hospital services have been downgraded and patients are forced to travel hours for basic procedures.<br \/>\nScott Morrison is cutting $5.3 million from Southern NSW hospitals between 2017 and 2020 \u2013 equivalent to almost 8,000 emergency department visits or 13,000 outpatient appointments.<br \/>\nFederal Labor\u2019s $25 million investment will go towards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A state of the art emergency department<\/li>\n<li>Operating theatres<\/li>\n<li>Maternity and paediatric services<\/li>\n<li>Pathology services<\/li>\n<li>Radiology services including X-ray, ultrasound and CT scanning<\/li>\n<li>Palliative care<\/li>\n<li>A helipad<\/li>\n<li>Up to 20 mental health beds<\/li>\n<li>Community drug and alcohol services<\/li>\n<li>A rehabilitation unit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labor will consult extensively with the Eurobodalla community to determine the best site for the new hospital.<br \/>\nWhile the NSW Liberals have also recognised the need for a new Eurobodalla Hospital, they have woefully underfunded the project, with fears the planned hospital will exclude inpatient mental health services. This is a slap in the face for a region that faces mental health and alcohol and other drug challenges.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s combined $200 million commitment includes $50 million more than the Liberals have promised, and builds on federal Labor\u2019s existing commitment that a Shorten Government will grant a full Medicare MRI licence to the region, boosting access to life-saving scans.<br \/>\nLabor believes every Australian should get the best quality health care whenever they need it \u2013 no matter if you live in Sydney or regional New South Wales.<br \/>\nThe Liberals on the other hand just cut and cut and cut from health. As Treasurer, Scott Morrison cut from health and hospitals in every Budget he authored.<br \/>\nOnly Labor will reverse the Liberals\u2019 cuts to hospitals with our $2.8 billion Better Hospitals Fund, which we will use to fund projects like this one.<br \/>\nLabor can afford to help build a new hospital in Eurobodalla, because we are tackling unfair tax loopholes and making multinationals pay their fair share.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shorten Labor Government will boost health services for people in the Eurobodalla Shire by investing $25 million to help build a new Eurobodalla Hospital. Our $25 million commitment is part of Labor\u2019s Fair Go Action Plan to protect Medicare and fix our hospitals, and is on top of a $175 million commitment by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/labor-will-build-the-eurobodalla-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR WILL BUILD THE EUROBODALLA HOSPITAL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}