$1.5 Million funding boost for RHH and ambulance service
Source: Tasmania. Minister for Health and Human Services. Media Release
"Hospitals and ambulance services in Southern Tasmania will benefit from additional funding of more than $1.5 million announced by Health and Human Services Minister Lara Giddings. The Royal Hobart Hospital will receive $700,000 to complete a wireless communication platform covering all clinical areas and $640,000 for new equipment. The Tasmanian Ambulance Service will get more than $170,000 for training equipment and new lightweight medical trauma and oxygen kits for on-road ambulances. Ms Giddings said the $700,000 investment in IT at the Royal will complete the upgrading of servers and providing fast Local Area Network access across the three public hospitals. Together with the funding announced last week for the Launceston General and North West Regional hospitals, this will deliver the framework for wireless communication throughout clinical areas of all of our major hospitals," Ms Giddings said"