VICTORIAN Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has agreed to meet Wodonga mayor Ron Mildren to discuss Border hospital concerns. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading The get-together, to occur in Melbourne, was announced by Cr Mildren at the Wodonga Council meeting on Monday May 20. He revealed it, while updating the community on what progress had occurred with advocating for a new Albury-Wodonga hospital since the council hosted a on March 1.
"We now have a meeting, she's accepted that we having in Melbourne on the 4 of June," Cr Mildren said. "I am looking forward to that conversation and that opportunity to explain and have her understand the things that we're going through and the things we want the government to know." The talk was organised following the pair's encounter at the at Albury hospital in April where one of Ms Thomas' aides attempted to from taking a photograph of the minister and Cr Mildren.
The mayor also revealed there had been conversations with Albury mayor Kylie King and a draft document outlining joint health concerns was close to being finalised. "It focuses on the resourcing and how it all fits together, it does not focus on where it (a new hospital) will be located, that will be determined at a future point in time and if it turns out to be the existing site then so be it, but I doubt that," Cr Mildren said. "I think the most probable thing is once the due diligence is done, it will be a greenfields site it could be in Albury, it could be in .
