Southern Metropolitan Region
John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:45): (302) Today I rise to ask a question for the Minister for Health Infrastructure in the other place, Minister Thomas, and in doing so I pay tribute to the announcement by the Andrews Labor government to give women’s health a serious focus and the funding it deserves. We will provide almost $58 million as part of an overall budget package worth $153.9 million to deliver on our commitment to create 20 comprehensive women’s health clinics across Victoria, with one in my electorate in Prahran at the Alfred hospital. Women and girls make up more than half of our population. Eighty per cent of women will suffer from conditions including fibroids and menopausal symptoms, yet these conditions remain undiagnosed and untreated. So my question to Minister Thomas is: what other conditions will the women’s health clinic treat in my electorate of Southern Metropolitan Region?