❓ A parliamentary question regarding the progress of works at Fiona Stanley Hospital, specifically concerning the helipad testing, followed by a ministerial update highlighting the hospital's near completion and contrasting it with previous Labor government delays.
AnsweredQoN 483Legislative Assembly
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FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL — HELIPAD
483. Mr P. ABETZ to the Minister for Health:
On behalf of the member for
Forrestfield, I acknowledge and welcome the year 7 leadership group and the
principal from Maida Vale Primary School in the Speaker's gallery
today.
I notice that testing of the Fiona
Stanley public hospital helipad occurred recently, with the first landing of an
emergency helicopter on site. With this in mind, could the minister please
update the house on the progress of works at Fiona Stanley Hospital?
483. Mr P. ABETZ to the Minister for Health:
On behalf of the member for
Forrestfield, I acknowledge and welcome the year 7 leadership group and the
principal from Maida Vale Primary School in the Speaker's gallery
today.
I notice that testing of the Fiona
Stanley public hospital helipad occurred recently, with the first landing of an
emergency helicopter on site. With this in mind, could the minister please
update the house on the progress of works at Fiona Stanley Hospital?
AnswerView source ↗
I first acknowledge and welcome to
the chamber the wonderful students from Halls Head Primary School and their
teacher Mr Beckingham. Thanks, Mr Speaker, even though I did not get to ask
you, for letting them sit up there.
We recently had the pleasure of
going to watch the first helicopter landing at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital,
and it was very impressive. The helicopter came in from all directions to see
the effect of winds and to make sure that helicopters can land safely from
every direction. All the noise and vibration monitors were up in the hospital.
The pad itself is situated on a bed of rubber so that it mitigates any
vibration that affects the hospital. It is located right above the operating
theatres and the emergency department with a special lift to take people down.
It is the only helipad outside the CBD and patients who need urgent treatment,
particularly burns patients or cardiothoracic patients, both of which will be
located at the new hospital, will be taken especially to that hospital. Also,
for those members in the south west, if we get urgent cases and the patients
desperately need critical care and treatment, they will stop at the first
available hospital as they come north, which will be Fiona Stanley.
The hospital is going very well; it
is 94 per cent complete at this stage. I have to say that it is looking
amazing; it is looking extremely good. The hospital is going very well; it will
open, as we said, in October.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park!
Dr
K.D. HAMES : It will provide state-of-the-art treatment for people in
Western Australia. We are very proud of what has happened at the hospital. I
well recall the promises under Labor. Every single year it was delayed by a
year, so we had four consecutive years of delay under the previous Labor
government for the opening time from 2010. In the lead-up to the 2008 election,
the Minister for Health at the time went there and some bulldozing was done.
Almost none of the work had been done and it was nowhere near ready to be
progressed. Certainly, not enough money was put aside to do the job. Two billion
dollars has been committed to build the new hospital. I think it will be the
great pride of this government when it is completed.
the chamber the wonderful students from Halls Head Primary School and their
teacher Mr Beckingham. Thanks, Mr Speaker, even though I did not get to ask
you, for letting them sit up there.
We recently had the pleasure of
going to watch the first helicopter landing at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital,
and it was very impressive. The helicopter came in from all directions to see
the effect of winds and to make sure that helicopters can land safely from
every direction. All the noise and vibration monitors were up in the hospital.
The pad itself is situated on a bed of rubber so that it mitigates any
vibration that affects the hospital. It is located right above the operating
theatres and the emergency department with a special lift to take people down.
It is the only helipad outside the CBD and patients who need urgent treatment,
particularly burns patients or cardiothoracic patients, both of which will be
located at the new hospital, will be taken especially to that hospital. Also,
for those members in the south west, if we get urgent cases and the patients
desperately need critical care and treatment, they will stop at the first
available hospital as they come north, which will be Fiona Stanley.
The hospital is going very well; it
is 94 per cent complete at this stage. I have to say that it is looking
amazing; it is looking extremely good. The hospital is going very well; it will
open, as we said, in October.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park!
Dr
K.D. HAMES : It will provide state-of-the-art treatment for people in
Western Australia. We are very proud of what has happened at the hospital. I
well recall the promises under Labor. Every single year it was delayed by a
year, so we had four consecutive years of delay under the previous Labor
government for the opening time from 2010. In the lead-up to the 2008 election,
the Minister for Health at the time went there and some bulldozing was done.
Almost none of the work had been done and it was nowhere near ready to be
progressed. Certainly, not enough money was put aside to do the job. Two billion
dollars has been committed to build the new hospital. I think it will be the
great pride of this government when it is completed.
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