Commonsense prevails with Wellington hospital
Green Party Health spokesperson and Wellington Central list
candidate Sue
Kedgley says commonsense has prevailed in
the Government's decision to keep
Wellington's major
tertiary hospital in Newtown.
"It makes far better sense
to have a hospital in the heart of a city, where
most
Wellingtonians can reach it easily, than in an outer
suburban area of
the city," she said.
"It also makes
sense to locate it near to an already existing
infrastructure
of health care services. The cost of
having to relocate these facilities
would have been
prohibitive, and would have made no sense at all," she
said.
"The decision is good news for Wellington city, and
especially for Newtown,
which would have suffered a huge
dislocation if the hospital and surrounding
businesses
had been forced to move away from it."
The Greens also welcomed the decision to upgrade facilities at Keneperu.
"This decision will meet many of the concerns of
residents from Porirua and
surrounding areas," Ms Kedgley
said.
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