Dai Le (Fowler, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I had the opportunity to work with HammondCare volunteers Sinilia Radivojevic and her friend Rebecca on the weekend at the Braeside Hospital for palliative care, in Prairiewood, in my electorate of Fowler. It was a challenging but rewarding morning as we pushed around 'the trolley of love', as Sinilia called it, to offer patients and their families a cuppa, biscuits and a bit of love-heart marshmallows to comfort them in these most difficult moments. Braeside Hospital was initially set up to provide support for patients dying from cancer. Today the hospital is open to anyone requiring palliative care. Quentin, whose father-in-law is going through palliative care, told me how much the staff and volunteers had added joy, providing extremely high care for his father-in-law. He couldn't speak of them highly enough.

Volunteers like Sinilia have been paramount to the work at Braeside Hospital, and I want to thank her for the work she's doing in our community as well as the many other volunteers, who give up their valuable time to service our community there. But they need more support: support such as volunteers attending to support pushing the trolley of love as well as giving clothes, jumpers, jumpers, pyjamas and blankets. That's what Quentin wants for his father-in-law as well. I want to take this opportunity to really highlight the amazing work that staff nurses are doing to support those in need at Braeside Hospital, in Prairiewood.