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Funding for upgrades to bush nursing hospitals

Thirty-five bush nursing hospitals and centres around Victoria are to share more than $2.58 million in Victorian Government funding to upgrade facilities and buy new equipment.

Key projects to receive support include:

• The building of a replacement bush nursing hospital at Lake Bolac ($100,000).
• Primary health centres at Violet Town ($279,000) and Birchip ($100,000).
• New nursing home facilities on the Mornington Peninsula ($230,000).
• Refurbishment of a nursing home in Macedon Ranges Shire ($220,000).
• A new activities centre at Tongala ($100,000).

The next round of funding for the centres will be announced next year, following a further call for applications on projects.

(News Release, Office of the Premier of Victoria, August 17, 1999)