South Australian Premier Responds to Opposition’s Plan to Fix Hospital Ramping

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall speaks to the media at the daily Covid update press conference in Adelaide, Australia on July 21, 2021. Photo by Kelly Barnes/Getty Images

With a state election looming, South Australian (SA) Premier Steven Marshall has released a list of hospital upgrades underway or already completed, in response to the opposition’s health plan, which was revealed on Sunday and aims to address the ramping crisis.

In a social media post on Monday, Marshall revealed seven projects worth around $2.9 billion (US$2.1 billion), the largest of which is the $1.95 billion construction of a new Women and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, saying his government is delivering long term solutions required to fix what he calls “Labor’s ramping legacy.”