Delusion and Ghosts

In case you've forgotten there was an approved refurbishment of the RAH approved in 2001.   At the time the Health Minister told the RAH Board how luck we were to have approved such a comprehensive modern upgrade of the hospital which would give the Public of SA access to the most advanced facilities in Australia.   So the hospital started to build and produced new theatres XRay, burns facilities and emergency department and so on.    What was NOT FINISHED was the plan to modernise the patient accommodation.      Then Minister John Hill put the kybosh on that part and then the gurus of the CNAHS and Health Dept came up with the "Marj"    But I said that in another post.    Then nothing happened.   So for the past 4 years at least the public has been cheated of its new facilities.    It would have been finished by now.     All we have is a half finished hospital, and of course the facilities that were built are dating, it is true they need alteration and expansion now because NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE FOR FOUR YEARS.    Why does the Government delude itself that a new hospital would not date in the same time frame - it is the nature of medical technology.      No one benefits from these grand plans that won;t see the light of day without precisptating a State financial crisis  Beware ghost of the State Bank