Tomorrow's ACT budget will include an additional $58 million for paediatric inpatient care and community-based services.
Because the specialists he needs to see regularly aren't available in Canberra, the family moved from the ACT to Bywong – near Lake George – to be closer to Sydney."We've got two other children, so having to make sure they're cared for, the house is cared for, the animals are looked after whenever we have to go and travel – and it costs money every time we go to Sydney.
The ACT government argues Canberra's population simply isn't big enough to provide enough patients to make it a viable location for many paediatric specialists to practice. " be a bit of a bridge between what our teams are currently able to do and those children who need to be transferred to Sydney to provide that higher level of care for critically ill children," Ms Stephen-Smith said.
"We often see that children are delayed in their return from Sydney when they've had to receive that critical care for an illness or major trauma because there haven't been paediatric rehabilitation services in the ACT," Ms Stephen-Smith said.
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