Govt urged to help pay for rural patients' transport
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The Rural Doctors Association wants the Federal Government to help meet the travel and accommodation costs of patients in rural and regional areas.
The Government will pay for specialist breast cancer nurses in rural hospitals, including at Berri in the Riverland and Wallaroo on Yorke Peninsula.
The association's president, Peter Rischbieth, says the patient assistance transport scheme also needs federal support.
"Many women living in regional locations often find it difficult to travel to major centres to have radio therapy, chemotherapy and surgery," he said.
"Often they may choose to have treatment that is not considered to be the gold standard because of the issues of difficultly of access for some of the major centres for radiotherapy and chemotherapy."
