Constituency questions
Nepean electorate
Sam GROTH (Nepean) (14:40): (1190) You will not find a more important issue to the people of Nepean than health and with that, Rosebud Hospital. On 15 May I put a question on notice to the Minister for Health, who responded on 28 July. I was asking the Minister for Health when she last made a visit to Rosebud. You would have thought in her remit as the Minister for Health, with a hospital that needs to be redeveloped, she would have. In her response the minister said she had undertaken visits right across Victoria – health services, ambulance stations, community health services, controlled health services, women’s health clinics, sexual and reproductive health, urgent care and even to schools about Smile Squad – but there was not a single mention in her answer about an official visit to Rosebud Hospital. I think the people of the southern peninsula, the people of Nepean, who are in desperate need of a redevelopment of their hospital, need not only a visit from the Minister for Health but at least an answer as to why she does not come down and visit that hospital. So my question to the minister is: when will she come down and see the state of Rosebud Hospital?