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Bunbury's Art enhances curriculum St John of God centre to relocate By Peter Rosengren Health care services in the South-West have taken a major step with the agreement of St John of God hospital in Bunhury to co-locate with Bunbury Regional Hospital to the site of Bunhury's Edith Cowan University campus. WA Health Minister Graham Kierath and St John of God Health Care System acting chairman, Michael Quinlan, this week signed the agreement which will form the basis for co-locating the $70 million hospitals on the Edith Cowan University site. "The one-stop health service will see the people of Bunbury and surrounding areas get the best health care that is available," Mr Kierath said. Government incentives to the St John of God hospital for agreeing to relocate to the new site included a grant of $5.3 million and land for 20 years free of charge. The public hospital will have a 130-bed capacity while the private hospital would hold approximately 80 beds, Mr Kierath said. This would substantially increase the number of hospital beds available in the South West. However, Mr Kierath said that there would also be major savings involved from the Government's point of view. "There will be major savings to Government through having all health services located on the one site, no duplication of those services and using common architects and builders," he said. Western Australia Operations Manager and Director of Finances for the St John of God Health Care system throughout Australia, Don Good, said that the co-location would bring significant savings and opportunities to the new hospitals. "Each hospital will have its own operating theatre but they will be adjacent to each other so that equipment can be shared between the two," he said. He also said that one of the main savings benefits would be in the area of diagnostic services. "There will be one x-ray department obviously that's a very high cost area - and there will be one pathology, one pharmacy. Operating theatres will be able to
Graham Kierath share a lot of high-cost equipment," he said. Mr Good said that although cooperating on a day-to-day basis, the two hospitals Year 10 student Chris Markovic with Mazenod College's purchase of the would remain independently operated. Madonna and Child in Blue by Glen Forrest. Patient areas and admissions would be totally independent of each other. ition and Sale. About 300 art lovers "We plan to commence construction By Colleen McGuiness-Howard sipped champagne, ate delicious some time in the first quarter of next year," delights and inspected the 227 art he said. A background of beautiful piano Mr Kierath said that the memorandum of works which featured many Hills music played by former Trinity stuunderstanding which would form the artists and some former Mazenod stubasis for negotiating a final combined dent Chris McMillan (now studying at dents. facilities agreement had been negotiated the Conservatorium of Music) providbetween the Government, the Bunbury ed a soft backdrop to the Mazenod The art show contributes to Health Service Board and St John of God College hall which was decorated Mazenod rector Father Peter Daly's management. with golden hay recently on the occa- aim of enhancing student appreciation It was expected that construction on the sion of Mazenod College in of the world of art, to complement new site would start in January next year Lesmurdie's Annual Fine Art Exhibexisting mainstream areas of study. and be completed by mid 1997, he said. The estimated cost of the public hospital would be approximately $50 million, while it was expected construction costs of the St John of God hospital would be $19 million. As UN air strikes hit hard for the first said. Their condition is one of desperation. Radiology, pathology, hydrotherapy and time in four years at the Serbian heavy gun Fuel for cooking and heating in the pharmacy services would be located on- emplacements surrounding the Bosnian bombed-out city does not exist, temperasite but it had yet to be resolved which city of Sarajevo, Cardinal Vinko Puljic, the tures will drop to 20 degrees below zero party would be the provider, Mr Kierath city's archbishop, visited Perth and pleaded this winter and there is no water for washsaid. for prayers and support for the belea- ing clothes or people. Mr Kierath said that further savings guered city. Cardinal Puljic has lived in the city since could also be generated through sharing The people of Sarajevo are now facing before the siege and leaves it periodically some services with Edith Cowan their fourth winter under an almost unbro- to lobby for peace, visiting world leaders University and that this would be the sub- ken siege with no food other than that sup- on behalf of the people of Sarajevo. ject of negotiation over the next year. Crucfficxion of Sarajevo - Page 7 plied by the slender UN supply line, he
Message from city under siege