Thursday, March 1, 2012

SA: Hospital cleaners a key plank to Labor's health platform

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SA: Hospital cleaners a key plank to Labor's health platform

By Steve Larkin

ADELAIDE, Jan 20 AAP - Humble hospital cleaners were the first step to fix South Australia'spublic hospital system, opposition leader Mike Rann said today.

Mr Rann said if elected to government at the February 9 state poll, Labor would spend$1.5 million a year to hire more hospital cleaners.

He said the money would be used for hospitals to employ up to 50 extra cleaners a year.

According to federal government statistics, 66 of every 1,000 patients in SA pick upa hospital-acquired bacterial infection compared with a national average of 43 for every1,000 …

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