VICTORIAN Health Minister David Davis came to the Border yesterday to announce $762,000 in funding for the new parents and babies unit that will begin operating within the Wodonga hospital next year.
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The new unit will replace a house in Vermont Street that now provides a service used by 250 families each month, and it will be relocated next to the existing obstetrics unit.
Border parents fought hard to maintain the service after it was announced it would be relocated from the Mercy Hospital in Albury, where it had operated for three decades.
But the Vermont Street site has served only as an interim measure, with constraints on space a major issue.
The new unit will allow the provision of sleeping and consulting rooms, space for perinatal depression services, meeting facilities and waiting and lounge areas.
A purpose-built facility will allow those delivering services at Wodonga to parents and their infants greater capacity to provide even better care.
For those who seek this support, they will know how imperative it is for this service to continue to thrive and grow, much like the youngsters whose families it seeks to help.