RDH gets record cash transfusion in NT budget

The Northern Territory Government has committed a record 335 million to Royal Darwin Hospital in this years budget

Health Minister Kon Vatskalis says this is 20 million dollars more than the hospital received last year

He says the extra funding will be used across the board

Every single service of this hospital gets part of this budget he said

The doctors the midwives the nurses the oncology unit the emergency department

I promised when I became minister that I wanted to see a system that would be equivalent to the ones in South Australia Western Australia or NSW

We are not there yet but we put the money in place to reach that standard

Opposition leader Terry Mills says the government keeps upping the millions of dollars poured in to the hospital but is not achieving results

They still dont get it he said

Its not the spending of money its how you manage the money that is spent

What we are interested in is what we are actually going to get for the amount of money spent

Date : 13 Apr, 2012
Reference : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-12/budget-more-money-for-royal-darwin-hospital/3946824?section=nt

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