While the Premier has laid down the law to the new Health Minister, asking for more “tools and tech” for our aging hospital, another project that could have helped to relieve the pressure right now has been critically delayed.
Gympie was promised a nurse-led clinic to open at the end of September and we’ve been informed it will go ahead, it’s just not ready yet.
In the meantime people, especially those on limited funds are making the heartbreaking choice of going to their GP or putting food on the table for their families.
And often it’s their health that is losing out.
Choosing not to go to the GP and instead waiting until the problem is so acute that they need to go to the hospital is not a solution.
Neither is clogging up the hospital ED with ailments that could be treated in a clinical setting.
