Mandurah overlooked for critical healthcare funding, with no new urgent care clinics allocated to Peel region
Mandurah was once again ignored for critical health financing, not allocated to the Peel area of WA.
Although this is the second most intense population of the Peel region in the province.
Last month, the Federal government announced new emergency care clinics for Bateman, Ellenbrook, Mirrabooka, Geraldton, Mundaring and Yanchep.
Clinics provides treatment for emergency, life -threatening diseases and injuries and aims to alleviate the pressure on nearby emergency departments.
When asked why Mandurah was ignored as an emergency care clinic position, a government spokesman did not answer.
The triacial times on the Peel Health campus are generally much higher than other metropolitan hospitals.
On Monday, the average waiting time is 100 minutes, the only hospital with higher waiting times with Royal Perth.
Eight Emergency Care Clinic is already working at WA, including Rockingham, which is reported to be the most intense of the state, and has been treating 34,000 people since the middle of 2023.
However, the federal government will not explain the percentage of patients traveling from Mandurah to the clinus due to confidentiality.
However, as anecdote, inhabitants who want health advice on social media are generally recommended to travel to Rockingham clinic to prevent waiting times in Peel.
Meanwhile, the Emergency Service of the Peel Health campus continues to be forced under patient volume.
Emergency Service, 2021, the addition of seven short -term beds and yet fruitful 152 million dollars of development did not increase significantly.
This is despite the increasing population of more than 100,000 mandurah residents and the department that serves more than 20,000 population in Murray Shire.
The absence of an emergency care clinic is also a blow for Shire, who struggles.
In 2024, the results obtained from the Murray Region Health and Social needs analysis were published and a $ 50 million health center, defined as the best financing priority in the region, was developed.
This center will provide a range of services, including allied health and pathology to improve health access for residents and to facilitate the pressure on the Peel Health Campus.
The report was created with the Primary Health Alliance financed by the Federal Government.
37 percent of the inhabitants of Murray found a long -term health, 51.8 percent obesity, 28 percent high blood pressure and 14.8 percent of high or very high psychological problems.
The people in Shire go to Mandurah and in some cases to Rockingham to access emergency health services.
Ministry of Health General Director Shirley Bowen blamed the aging population of WA for a reason for increasing pressure.
Mandurah has the highest aging population of the state, which is an average of 25 percent of the population over 65 years of age.
Last month, the state government has committed $ 50 million for hospital care and improvement, but none of this will be robbed.
This commitment came after Western Australia’s reports on unsuccessful infrastructure in three major hospitals.
However, despite the fact that the air conditioner was found to be closed to patients in 2024 and the reports of new roof leaks that closed the entrance of the hospital, no financing was committed to the campus.
The inhabitants of Mandurah often contain frustration, long waiting, personnel shortage, bed shortage and the ruined state of the building.
More recently, the nurses began to speak, one letter to Times because of the fear of the safety of patients.
The Kara Maar expert community started to work at the Eating Disorder Service, but for this service, the $ 4 million fund was provided by the liberal government due to its presence in the Peel region.
Four years have passed since the state government committed to taking the Peel Health campus back to public hands.
