Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Maryborough and District Hospital

Martha HAYLETT (Ripon) (19:03): (1301) My adjournment matter is for the attention of the Minister for Health, who is at the table. The action I seek is that the minister joins me in my electorate to visit the newly redeveloped Maryborough hospital. This $115 million project is truly phenomenal. Maryborough families now have world-class health care close to home, with a brand new urgent care centre, a 32-bed inpatient unit, two operating theatres and recovery spaces and a day medical centre with imaging, pharmacy, oncology, dialysis and infusion services. Local mums are also now able to give birth closer to home, with some of the most spacious, beautiful new birthing suites that I have ever seen.

The redeveloped hospital has blown the community away, and there is a real sense of pride in having such a state-of-the-art facility in our local community. Just this morning the hospital CEO Nickola Allan sent me through some fantastic statistics about how many locals have been cared for since the new hospital building opened its doors back in April. 3065 people have presented to the new urgent care centre, 435 patients have been admitted via the inpatient unit, seven beautiful babies have been born, 167 appointments have been had with midwives in the antenatal clinic and 255 patients have used the new sexual and reproductive advice clinic. There have been 570 dialysis treatments, 487 patients through the new operating theatres and 92 treatments via the medical day centre for oncology. The statistics speak for themselves: the redeveloped Maryborough hospital is providing more people with the care and treatment they need closer to home. And Maryborough only has this because of a Labor government. I welcome the minister to visit and see the incredible hospital for herself.