With a state election looming, South Australian (SA) Premier Steven Marshall has released a list of hospital upgrades underway or already completed, in response to the opposition’s health plan, which was revealed on Sunday and aims to address the ramping crisis. In a social media post on Monday, Marshall revealed seven projects worth around $2.9 billion (US$2.1 billion), the largest of which is the $1.95 billion construction of a new Women and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, saying his government is delivering long term solutions required to fix what he calls “Labor’s ramping legacy.” Marshall had said at a press conference on Monday that the previous Labor government said they would transform health, but slashed 500 to 1,000 beds out of the system, whereas the Coalition, by contrast, added hundreds of additional beds to the system, thousands of additional workers, and is upgrading all the state’s health facilities. This comes after …
South Australian Premier Responds to Opposition’s Plan to Fix Hospital Ramping
February 22, 2022
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