Ken Lay will work with health and drug reform experts, and consult with residents and traders, on the government's preferred location for the second trial – opposite Queen Victoria Market in North Melbourne.
Former police chief commissioner Ken Lay has been appointed to oversee the rollout of a second medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne.
The independent review panel for the first injecting room trial in North Richmond recommended last month that a second facility open in the City of Melbourne after 51 people died of overdoses there between January 2015 and September 2019.Mr Lay will work with health and drug reform experts, and consult with residents and traders on the government's preferred location for the second trial – at the cohealth community health service, opposite the Queen Victoria Market in North Melbourne.
Cohealth Central City, near the Queen Victoria Market, is the chosen site for the state's second medically supervised injecting facility.The state government accepted all recommendations from an independent review of the North Richmond facility, extending the trial for another three years after the initial two-year program finished last month.
"We've listened to the advice of health experts since the very beginning of this project and we'll continue to be guided by them on the appropriate site for a second injecting room," Mr Foley said.
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