Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Werribee Mercy Hospital

Dylan WIGHT (Tarneit) (13:02): Last week I had the pleasure of joining the Minister for Health Infrastructure and the fantastic new member for Werribee at the Werribee Mercy Hospital. This hospital is the main service provider for families in my area of Tarneit and Hoppers Crossing and has been the receiver of a major upgrade to its emergency department by the Allan Labor government. If you have been to the Werribee Mercy yourself, you would know just how hard the staff work to treat as many people as they possibly can. Nobody should have to sit in a waiting room for hours on end, which is why this expansion is so important to the people of Tarneit and Hoppers Crossing. This expansion is part of a $280 million investment into two emergency department expansion projects and will provide 34 new treatment spaces at the Mercy. These new spaces will allow 25,000 more patients to be treated every single year. That is almost double the capacity. With four new resuscitation bays, 16 short-stay beds and 36 emergency care cubicles, we are making sure that every person can see high-quality healthcare providers as quickly as possible. This project is building on the government’s past $120 million expansion of the Werribee Mercy Hospital in 2018, which delivered new inpatient beds, new critical care beds, new operating theatres and 54 new mental health beds. The Allan Labor government is committed to ensuring that everybody can access critical care, and I cannot wait to see this new expansion up and running very soon.