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ΕίσοδοςBulahdelah bids to woo GP to townFORGET the town with no beer - Bulahdelah, population 1500, is the the town without a doctor. For 13 months the community has tried everything to attract a medico - even
hanging a giant advertising banner on the freeway.The
doctor's house has been renovated(η Ανδριτσαινα τι υπηρεσίες στεγασης προσφέρει?), the
hospital has had a $100,000 upgrade and Bulahdelah's
best cooks are now offering weekly home-made treats (ενταξει δεν ζητάω τόσα πολλα μια πινακιδα ωστοσο ΝΟ DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE μπορείτε να αναρτήσετε)in the latest bid to ease the crisis.
"We make a mean date loaf and the girls up the river make a wicked sponge cake, so the doctor will be well looked after," said Margaret Mears, 66, a long-term resident and award-winning fruit cake maker.
The town's problems started last September when their sole GP of 20 years, Dr Adel Habashi, had back surgery, meningitis and then a heart attack, forcing him to leave.
"I practised medicine there for 22 years,
on call 24-hours a day and I've said for a long time that we need another doctor there," Dr Habashi, 64, said. "I was in a unique position,
I was covering the hospital 24-hours-a-day plus my own practice." (ΝΑΙ καλά διαβάσατε δούλευε στο ΚΥ και στο ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΟ του ιατρείο)A GP from Nabiac now travels 45km two days a week and it takes five weeks to get an appointment.
But the hospital remains without a medical practitioner. The nearest hospitals are over an hour away in Taree or Newcastle.
"If you get sick any other day, too bad," said Irene Worth from the Bulahdelah Health Community Committee. "It's crazy,
we have bought so much equipment - half a million dollars worth - over the years and no one is in the hospital to use it."
The 12-bed hospital is rumoured to close amid a proposed $89 million health budget cut this year.
A spokesman for Hunter New England says: "HNE Health has no plans to close the Bulahdelah Hospital. "The facility will remain open. HNE Health is currently in discussions with potential GP candidates to assess their willingness to move to Bulahdelah and provide GP services."
The town needs a GP who is trained as a generalist in obstetrics, emergency medicine and anaesthetics, traditional training that has fallen by the wayside in recent years as medical graduates opt for specialised fields and ageing GPs in the bush retire.