Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Werribee Mercy Hospital

Mathew HILAKARI (Point Cook) (19:22): (410) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, Minister for Health Infrastructure and Minister for Ambulance Services. The action that I seek is for the minister to provide an update on the design and expansion of the Werribee Mercy emergency department. Of course many in this place would recall from the budget that the Victorian Labor government is investing over $100 million to expand the emergency department at Werribee Mercy, with a planned extra 34 treatment spaces made up of four resuscitation beds, 16 short-stay beds and a further 36 emergency care cubicles, to care for the rapidly growing population. The minister knows this hospital very well, having recently visited there to thank the staff for their extraordinary efforts both at the moment and across the period of COVID. I thank the minister, and I look forward to her update.