Four church leaders have joined forces in a bid to push Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan to set up a safe injecting room in Melbourne's CBD.
'Honour your commitment': Renewed pressure on Jacinta Allan to set up Melbourne CBD safe injecting room as four church leaders issue plea to Victorian Premier
But almost a year after the government received a report into the potential Melbourne CBD facility, the service appears no closer to being established. Jacinta Allan is facing renewed pressure over the establishment of the Melbourne CBD safe injecting room. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui "The City of Melbourne has the highest number of heroin deaths of any Victorian local government area. The call-outs to ambulance services in response to overdoses here has increased nearly 30 per cent in the last year.
Mr Lay handed his report to the government at the end of last May, after the end of 2020 deadline was pushed back due to the pandemic.Ms Allan told reporters the report would be released sometime this year.
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