The chair of the Border Medical Association is "devastated" funding has been promised to yet another Victorian hospital while Albury-Wodonga has been overlooked.
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But Border health professionals and community members have long been calling for a new, much needed hospital in Albury-Wodonga.
Border Medical Association chair Barb Robertson said she was "devastated" there was still no funding committed to a new Albury-Wodonga hospital.
"I'm angry, it's very unfair," she said.
"I'm really frustrated, we're so in need, great that other places are getting what they need, but our community is equally in trouble and really needing to get a promise about a new hospital on a new site."
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The Victorian government has pledged funding to seven hospitals including the new West Gippsland hospital, while the Coalition has pledged to build or upgrade 15 hospitals, including $300 million for a new Albury-Wodonga hospital.
Finley general practitioner Dr Alam Yoosuff said he'd lost count of all the hospitals promised to be built across Victoria, except for on the Border.
"There's no need to make the case that we need a new hospital and a new system upgraded in Albury-Wodonga, it is very well clear," he said,
"Everybody knows that we are in a 1980s/1990s state of infrastructure and technology in Albury.
"Our voices aren't heard because there isn't a lot of commercial and political interest behind it."
Dr Robertson said the Border was in a critical situation.
"We're just managing to juggle to the lack of beds, lack of resources, two sites and all the clinical risk that goes with it," she said.
"It's not sustainable and we really, really need them to look at us as an area that's in crisis and needs help urgently."
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