HOBSONS Bay residents will suffer if urgent works are not carried out immediately to fix the ageing dental clinics of the Western Region Health Centre (WRHC), chief executive Lyn Morgain has warned.
Western suburbs Greens MP Colleen Hartland plans to use State Parliament to drive home the need for urgent solutions to the long-running woes facing the centre.
WRHC is the key provider of emergency and general dental care to more than 10,000 adults and children in Melbourne’s west each year. The Weekly reported in June that a dental services taskforce, chaired by western suburbs Liberal MP Andrew Elsbury, had found a series of issues clouding the Footscray clinics’ future.
The report found both dental sites, at Paisley Street and Geelong Road in Footscray, had inadequate access and were at risk from termites and vermin.
One option recommended by the report is bringing together adult and child dental services – now split over two sites – to one redeveloped 12-chair dental clinic on the Paisley Street site.
