Anthony Albanese promises $200 million to upgrade Perth hospital, shifts focus of campaign to health

Anthony Albanese will change the focus of his campaign to health policy on Monday, with a promise of $ 200 million of the federal government to rebuild an important hospital in the Eastern Suburbs of Perth.

Prime Minister Spruik a joint update of $ 355 million to the Public Hospital of San Juan de Dios Midland along with the Prime Minister of Western Australia, Roger Cook.

The State Labor Government of Cook has previously committed $ 105 million in funds to improve the Hospital Emergency Department. Therefore, work counts that money, plus a new commitment of $ 50 million from the state government, to reach the total of $ 355 million in this announcement.

The initiative is intended to provide more hospital beds, operational theaters, UCI beds and neonatal care beds, in addition to a redesign of obstetrics and the neonatal unit of the complex.

“We are working with the Government of Cook Labor to build the future of Western Australia,” said Albanese.

“If we will re -elect, we will invest $ 200 million to extend the public hospital of San Juan de Dios Midland to deliver more beds and a new emergency department.

“Only the labor is strengthening Medicare, with the greatest investment in more than 40 years. This means more free trips to the doctor, cheaper medications and more urgent clinics, where all you need is your Medicare card, not your credit card.”

Cook argued that the extension “would position WA’s public health system for the future”, which described as “a key priority” for its recently re -elected government.

“That is why, together with Albanese’s labor government, we are investing in projects that will make a significant difference for patients,” said the prime minister.

“The expansion of the Public Hospital of San Juan de Dios Midland will add 60 beds for hospitalized patients, two more operational theaters, a new ICU, as well as a new emergency department.

“This is based on the record investment of my government in health, and will help reduce waiting times and address the ambulance ramp, while increasing the size of the ICU by 50 percent.”

Albanese flew to Perth on Sunday afternoon after spending his morning in Canberra, where he appeared in the ABC Insiders program and highlighted a promise to ban supermarkets for supermarkets.

So now we have had a blow of one and two of the Labor in the first days of the campaign, with the Prime Minister first hammering Peter Dutton for opposing the new government cuts of the government announced in the budget last week, then pursuing the supermarkets, and now to try to challenge the credentials of the opposition leader about medical care.

You can expect the higher work figures to spend much of Monday criticizing Dutton’s record since she was Minister of Health, a work she had of the electoral victory of Tony Abbott in 2013 until the end of 2014.

We already have a small preview of that line of attack.

“This choice is an option between the Labor Plan to continue building or Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce. Only a vote for the Labor is a stronger Medicare vote,” said Health Minister Mark Butler.

“The doctors of Australia voted for Peter Dutton, the worst health minister in the history of Medicare for a reason. Everything in the Peter Dutton registry tells us that he will begin by cutting Medicare and that he will not stop there. He will cut everything except his taxes.”

Butler referred to a survey conducted in 2015 by the magazine Australian doctor. His readers, who were mostly GPS, described Mr. Dutton, the worst health minister, “in recent memory.”

Nicola Roxon of Labor arrived in second place, with 17 percent compared to 46 percent of Dutton. Abbott was third with 13 percent.

The following year, in an electoral campaign against Malcolm Turnbull, work unleashed a quite successful fear campaign, nicknamed “Mediscare”, which alleged that the coalition would try to privatize Medicare.