Minister defends his position on radiation therapy By Nasik Swami: Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Chris Picton, has confirmed his position for no radiation service in the South East. Following the recent release of the independent feasibility study report, which scrapped the establishment of the service despite $4.3 million of federal funding, The News asked Mr Picton the following questions: The chairman of Limestone Coast Local Health Network (LCLHN), Dr Saies, is a fly-in, fly-out doctor at Mt Gambier. Why is that okay for him and most SE hospitals to have fly-in and fly-out staff, but it is not okay for any radiation staff? Icon Cancer Care said it would provide staff – isn’t it their responsibility, not the LCLHN? Do you find it suspicious that a $110,000 report (radiation therapy report) finds what the LCLHN wanted it to find, given its February 2022 minutes? Avoiding our questions, the minister […]
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