Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the Prime Minister’s commitment that the buck will stop with him when it comes to public hospitals. Given that nurses from the Dubbo hospital are borrowing bandages and urinary dipsticks from the local vet and meat has been taken from the menu at Coonabarabran hospital because they cannot afford to pay the butchers, what will the government do to help these hospitals meet their share of the $205 million that the New South Wales government has cut from the area health service as a part of its mini-budget?

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