David McGowan ITS THE POOR THAT BEAR THE BURDEN

The Domiciliary Care Crisis in South Australia (Advertiser 15/3) begs the question of Minister Hill “Does your department know what it is doing?”
The old RAH Board was informed in 2003 that on any one day there were 30 acute care beds occupied by patients who had finished their treatment, but were not well enough to go home unsupported. Working out a way of providing such care at home would be the equivalent of providing a whole new ward for the hospital and at a fraction of the cost.
Meanwhile the Minister pursues his agenda of spending twice as much money as is needed for modernizing the RAH by building a monument to the Rann Government on the railway yards.
It is the poor, the sick and the frail who bear the burden of Mr Hill’s policies
David McGowan PSM
Member of RAH Board 1999-2004