FED:Abbott announces $85m health fund

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2010
FED:Abbott announces $85m health fund

CANBERRA, Aug 6 AAP - Opposition Leader Tony abbott has promised to set up an $85 million
health infrastructure fund if the coalition wins government.

Mr Abbott said the fund would help fill gaps in local health services that were "usually"

created by state Labor governments.

"The health infrastructure fund is the kind of fund that I always wished I had had
when I was the health minister in government," he told reporters in Devonport while campaigning
in Tasmania on Friday.

The fund's first commitment would be $7 million to a linear accelerator at Burnie Hospital
to aid cancer treatment.

MORE jcd/rl/dep

KEYWORD: POLL10 HEALTH

� 2010 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.