Locals in the Hills Shire were furious to discover that, when their new hospital eventually opens, it won’t have a birthing suite.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It’s 9am on a Thursday and Windsor Road has slowed to a crawl. Semi-trailers carry building materials to feed booming housing estates, SUVs head to the shopping centre after the school run, and tradies dip into the drive-through after a trip to Bunnings. None are going anywhere fast.
“I’d rather be at home, but do I risk waiting and then having a baby on the side of the road? Because I really don’t want that,” Kanaley says.This is the problem facing hundreds of young families moving to Sydney’s growing north-west, where houses pop up almost overnight but not the schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure to support them. The state government is building a hospital at Rouse Hill, but almost a decade after it was first promised, the site remains an empty field.
Mayor of Hill Shire Michelle Byrne and resident Vicki Giannoulis at the Rouse Hill hospital site, which remains a green field almost a decade after it was first promised.“They didn’t even want to give us an emergency ,” says Vicki Giannoulis, a local real estate agent and member of the Box Hill Nelson progression association.Giannoulis moved to Rouse Hill 35 years ago, when Windsor Road was a quiet country road and the local school had fewer than 100 pupils.
Health Infrastructure acting chief executive Emma Skulander said Health Minister Ryan Park had been briefed on the scope, cost, and workforce requirements of adding birthing services to the new maternity unit. Opposition health spokeswoman Kellie Sloane said Sydney’s north-west was experiencing “a serious case of Labor pain” with the government failing to plan for the population boom.
With the closest public hospitals unreachable for many families, some have shelled out for private health cover to give birth at Norwest Private Hospital.
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