PHOTO: Medical organisation Ochre Health, which oversees several regional health facilities, including one here in Coonamble, has expressed an openness to discussing the establishment of a department of rural health in regional NSW.
Ochre Health, the medical organisation operating multiple health facilities across rural NSW, including Coonamble, say they are open to exploring a call for a designated state government department of rural health.
However, Ochre and others have also acknowledged the huge allocation of resources which would be needed for such a department, which they say may be better directed . . .
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