Official petition for the delivery of L4 Hospital, with associated healthcare & radiation oncology

Please sign this MOST IMPORTANT petition in regards to the level of health services being provided in the Eurobodalla

This is an official petition (not Change.org) and it is an important as it affects every single resident of Eurobodalla. You, your family, friends, coworkers, neighbours.

The Petition is to the NSW Government. It is on their petition portal so it is safe and secure.

The Petition reads:

Follow-up petition for the delivery of a level 4 Eurobodalla Hospital, with associated healthcare & radiation oncology services To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly,

There is no Regional or Base Hospital in the 300 kilometres between Nowra and Bega. The Eurobodalla Health District, with a significant First Nations population and one of the highest seniors demographics in Australia, currently has no Critical Care and Intensive Care service, no local Mental Health Unit, and no specialist physician, paediatric, anaesthetic, orthopaedic services. Yet these services are provided in SNSW districts with smaller populations like Bega & Goulburn.

The obvious unfairness and inequity of this situation must and needs to be resolved.

With COVID-19 at our doorstep, and an ever-present bushfire threat, there is a desperate need to immediately upgrade Accident & Emergency, Critical Care and Perioperative services in the Eurobodalla.

We therefore ask you to direct the Minister for Health to:

1. Provide immediate meaningful improvement to the Accident & Emergency, Critical Care and Perioperative services in the Eurobodalla.

2. Commit to a fully funded genuine level 4 regional hospital in Eurobodalla, providing level 4 clinical services (at ribbon cutting) across: - Accident & Emergency, - Critical Care/Intensive Care, - Medicine, Surgery, Maternity & Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, And minimum level 3 across all other services including Mental Health.

3. Direct the SNSWLHD to reconsider their current position in respect provision of much-needed Radiation Oncology treatments locally in the Eurobodalla, retrieve the funding specifically promised in April 2020 to the Eurobodalla by the Federal Health Minister, and reappraise interest previously rejected by them of credentialed private sector suppliers.

The link to the petition is here:

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePetition-details.aspx?q=jZUgSVU%2FocsrJKjSRNuOZQ%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR1xU4y7fOt-L1m-ji-_fFaZyiSWtggj3Iq7Uef0-RK7we6pZrp4K2ErXkM

Please share this across your noticeboards and networks. This is all about OUR Health system and what is being (or not being) provided to US, the residents of Eurobodalla from Sth Durras to Akolele.