Northern Victoria Region
Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (12:42): (274) My constituency question is for the Minister for Health. On Tuesday 4 May 2021 – 780 days ago – the then Minister for Health Martin Foley distributed a press release announcing funding to establish a new BreastScreen Victoria reading and assessment service in Shepparton. Mr Foley’s media release stated that the Shepparton reading and assessment service would be the ninth such facility in Victoria and would be set to open in late 2021. Well, here we are, 780 days – that is 2½ years – later, and the women of the Goulburn Valley are still waiting for this life-saving service to be opened, and patients requiring additional testing are still being forced to travel to Melbourne. Will the minister immediately establish the promised BreastScreen Victoria reading and assessment service in Shepparton?