The Chair of Regional Development Australia for the Grampians region has moved to shut down talk of a second public hospital for Ballarat on a prime piece of vacant land.
Some sections of the community have called for one to be built on the now vacant saleyards site on Latrobe Street, despite $665m currently being spent on the Base Hospital redevelopment.
However, Stuart Benjamin says our medical services need to stay central.
“We can quite easily have a hospital centrally that can service a population of 300,000.”
“The last thing you want to do is then create two hospitals where your professionals have all of sudden got to drive 25 minutes between those hospitals.”
“It just won’t happen, you need to have it centralised and we need to make sure as our biggest employer in the city that they have room to grow, and they do on the current site,” Mr. Benjamin said.
