❓ Mr Cook questions the Minister for Health about Midland patients being directed to 'rooms around the back' of the St John of God Midland Public Hospital. The Minister responds defensively, criticising the Labor Party's past health infrastructure record.
AnsweredQoN 329Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
Midland Health
Campus — St John of God Health Care
329. Mr R.H. COOK to the Minister for Health:
I have a supplementary question. Why is the minister taking
Midland patients back to the bad old days —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Thank
you, members!
Mr R.H. COOK : —
when patients had to go around the back because their conditions —
The SPEAKER : I
want to hear the question in silence. Is there a supplementary question?
Mr R.H. COOK : Why
is the minister taking people at Midland back to the old days because their
conditions are so unpalatable to the hospital management, they have to attend
rooms around the back?
Campus — St John of God Health Care
329. Mr R.H. COOK to the Minister for Health:
I have a supplementary question. Why is the minister taking
Midland patients back to the bad old days —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Thank
you, members!
Mr R.H. COOK : —
when patients had to go around the back because their conditions —
The SPEAKER : I
want to hear the question in silence. Is there a supplementary question?
Mr R.H. COOK : Why
is the minister taking people at Midland back to the old days because their
conditions are so unpalatable to the hospital management, they have to attend
rooms around the back?
AnswerView source ↗
What a nonsense question. Let us go back to the bad old days.
The bad old days saw the Labor Party promising to redevelop Kalgoorlie
Hospital. We saw the Labor Party promising to build Albany Hospital. We saw the
Labor Party putting off the development of Fiona Stanley Hospital. It was the
Labor Party, in its redevelopment of Midland hospital, that was going to tart
up the old Swan District Hospital. It was not going to build a new hospital
until it was dragged kicking and screaming. When we put out our policy saying
that we would build a new hospital, suddenly, a month later, the Labor Party
policy was to do the same—it was going to redevelop the old hospital.
There will be doors that people go through into the hospital
in the same way as they do with any hospital—people go in one door when
they want things done and they go through another door when they want another
thing done. There will be no difference. People will go to that hospital
complex to have whatever procedure they want done.
The bad old days saw the Labor Party promising to redevelop Kalgoorlie
Hospital. We saw the Labor Party promising to build Albany Hospital. We saw the
Labor Party putting off the development of Fiona Stanley Hospital. It was the
Labor Party, in its redevelopment of Midland hospital, that was going to tart
up the old Swan District Hospital. It was not going to build a new hospital
until it was dragged kicking and screaming. When we put out our policy saying
that we would build a new hospital, suddenly, a month later, the Labor Party
policy was to do the same—it was going to redevelop the old hospital.
There will be doors that people go through into the hospital
in the same way as they do with any hospital—people go in one door when
they want things done and they go through another door when they want another
thing done. There will be no difference. People will go to that hospital
complex to have whatever procedure they want done.
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