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13 November 2008
Tweed Magnetic Image not resonating with Labor Health Minister
NSW Labor Health Minister John della Bosca was unable to answer a question in Parliament today on lengthy delays to install a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit at the Tweed Hospital, according to Tweed Nationals MP Geoff Provest.
"This is despite him sitting for over a month on a letter from Tweed Hospital Medical Staff Council Chairman Dr Nick Crampton explaining the issue, Mr Provest said.
"The contractor offered to install the MRI unit at the hospital over a year ago, but has been bogged down in a bureaucratic mess with the North Coast Area Health Service which is refusing to provide a long term site lease."
"Minister Della Bosca did say he planned to visit the Tweed, but I got the same pledge from former Premier Morris Iemma and he never showed up."
MRI is a fundamental tool for a range of medical treatments including orthopedic surgery, neurology, oncology and pediatrics.
"Until we get this machine critically ill Tweed patients have to be sent to Queensland hospitals - that is just not good enough when the Tweed Hospital has the busiest emergency department outside Sydney," Mr Provest concluded.
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I
was lucky enough to be born and raised here on the
North Coast of NSW. My wife, Aune (pronounced Ona),
and I have 4 children who are now in their teens
and early twenties and we are proud grandparents.
We live in our own home at Banora Point.
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