MORNINGTON PENINSULA: Rosebud Hospital pressure grows
Nepean MLA Sam Groth (pictured) has renewed calls for funding for Rosebud Hospital.
Mr Groth said the redevelopment of Rosebud Hospital was long overdue.
He challenged Mary-Anne Thomas to “actually get in her car, go down to Rosebud, meet with Peninsula Health and meet
with the nurses, the staff and the local community to discuss the urgent need for the redevelopment of Rosebud Hospital”.
“In recent weeks we have had a Labor member of the upper house, a member of the other chamber, take to social media speaking warmly about the hospital and acknowledging the need for investment, and one of the posts even notes:
‘Another visit to Rosebud Hospital, it underscores the need for investment in our much loved facility …’
“They are fine words, but our community needs deeds, not just empty words for political gain. The truth is since Labor came to office in 2014 there has been no announced state funding for the redevelopment of the hospital.
“No-one in my community would contest that point. It is a lived reality of many patients, their families and the staff that work there, who have watched successive budgets go by without a line item to get shovels in the ground.
“The local community have had enough; they want to see this built, and the absence of a state commitment, even though the community has petitioned on this for a long time, is unacceptable.
“At the last election we, the Liberals and Nationals, committed to a $340 million redevelopment of Rosebud Hospital, one that went unmatched.
“We have an ageing population and we see seasonal surges in demand, and no-one wants to have to go all the way to Frankston to get the health care that they deserve.
“Recently I put a question on notice to the Minister for Health, and the minister could not even put the word ‘Rosebud’ in her answer,” Mr Groth said.