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May 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Australia’s peak medical group has slammed Western Australia’s 2012/13 budget for not doing enough for patients in the public hospital system.
Recurrent spending of $6.8 billion has been allocated for health services in 2012/13, which is an increase of $462 million.
However, Australian Medical Association WA president David Mountain said it was a woeful budget for patients and the public hospital system because the needs of the community required far more funding.
“The government is resting on its laurels. We’ve got a tidal wave of demand coming through … and there’s no way we can cope with it,” he said.
“The seven per cent increase that’s been given to health is well below current demand trend, and on top of that price indexation and wages are going to go up much more than four per cent this year.”
The deferral of the Karratha Health Campus project for two years has reduced the government’s expenditure by $89 million over the period to 2015/16.
However, the scope of the project has been expanded to cater for a growing population, increasing the total cost by $57 million to $207 million.
The government will also defer work on stage two of the Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital Cancer Centre.
However, it has allocated $22 million for preliminary works on the redevelopment of Royal Perth Hospital, which will cost a total of $158 million.
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