Wagga Wagga's cancer care centre was at the forefront of regional health care when it opened 20 years ago, but MPs and advocates say it has fallen behind.
The Riverina Cancer Care Centre, which opened in 2002, was built using $3 million raised by the community.abc.net.au/news/wagga-wagga-cancer-care-centre-funding/101473782There are fears a cancer care centre in southern New South Wales that was once a state leader in services is lagging behind.
"The community here raised the funds to build the building for the radiotherapy service 20 years ago and right from the start there's been an out-of-pocket expense. "In those services people are effectively bulk-billed — they don't have out-of-pocket costs and that's left Wagga as an outlier." But he said that only equated to about one per cent of patients at the facility and that the majority still had to financially contribute for their treatment.'Cancer doesn't discriminate'
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