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Prepared by Dr. Frank Simonson Background Information on Pambula Hospital"Over the last few years the following services have been removed from Pambula Hospital. Plastic surgery, general surgical lists have been reduced to one list per month, all gynaecology surgery, the option of one orthopaedic list, the on-call operating theatre for emergency surgery like emergency gynaecology, paediatric admissions, maternity admissions, and patients requiring monitoring of their health status." "Over the last decade, particularly since the amalgamation of the old Area Health Services to the Southern Area Health Service and then to the even bigger Greater Southern Area Health Service, there has been a determination by management to close Pambula Hospital and relocate services to Bega Hospital. The decision to recommend to the New South Wales State Government to site a new hospital at Bega was done WITHOUT ONE COMMUNITY CONSULTATION. This has also been the approach taken in withdrawing services from Pambula Hospital." September 2005 Bega Valley Health Service Cluster Service Plan 2005-2010. An Ancient and Dishonest Claim - No Such "unique position" was ever properly established"Bega Valley Health Service Cluster is in a unique position of having community and Bega Valley Shire support to move to one new health facility within the Shire. This will mean closing Pambula and Bega Hospitals to relocate to one new facility. In 2003 the previous Southern Area Health Service Asset Strategic Plan identified that the cost of maintaining the existing facilities far outweighed the investment required if the proposed new asset configuration of one new facility was adopted." p.3 |
