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http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200608/1721677.htm?southwestvic
It has been suggested that councils and rural communities should pay obstetrician's indemnity insurance to address the crisis in obstetric services in country areas. The federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, says the high cost of insurance is a major disincentive for doctors delivering babies in the regions. Ms Goward, who was speaking in Wagga in western New South Wales, says communities must put pressure on MPs to have the issue addressed and consider the option of paying insurance premiums themselves. "If rural areas want obstetricians or people licensed to deliver babies in their towns then maybe the local council, the local community, the local hospital, the State Government and the Federal Government have got to be the ones to pay the professional indemnity insurance for them so that it no longer becomes a cost that puts them off working in country towns," she said. |
