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Council calls for regional cancer centre

Posted on November 20, 2009, 8:08am and updated on November 23, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Grant District Council has called on the Mount Gambier Hospital and its Health Advisory Committee to explore opportunities available for a regional cancer centre.

This follows the Federal Government announcing it has committed $560m to set up regional cancer centres across Australia.

The Department of Health and Ageing is seeking applications from the public and private sectors for infrastructure funding to establish new or enhanced regional cancer centres.

Joint private and public ventures may also be considered.

“The aim of the regional cancer centres initiative is to help improve access and support for cancer patients in rural, regional and remote Australia, and to help close the gap in cancer outcomes between the city and country,” the government has said.

At council’s meeting on Monday night, councillors agreed to forward relevant information to the hospital and its advisory committee.

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  1. Sophie Rymill on November 22nd, 2009 11:00 pm 1

    I strongly support this proposal for a regional cancer centre and the council with its endeavour to bring such a facility to the region. I think it is a shame such an initiative has not been implemented earlier.

    Cancer is an enormous facet of health in today’s society and currently patients have to travel to metropolitan areas to receive treatment. This requires huge financial burdens not to mention the emotional factors in coming to terms with the diagnosis but also being away from friends and family during this period. The lack of such a facility in the second largest South Australian city highlights the substandard care for rural Australians, a problem the National Rural Health Alliance is aiming to address.

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