Second ambulance station for Warragul
Warragul is to get a second ambulance station.
The new branch will be built on vacant land on a service road off Burke St.
Ambulance Victoria Gippsland regional director Simon Jemmett said an additional ambulance and a team of seven full-time paramedics, currently working from the ambulance station in Queen St, would be based at the new facility.
No date for an opening has been set although signage recently erected on the site for the Victorian Health and Human Services Building Authority states “your new Warragul ambulance branch is coming soon”.
Mr Jemmett said design development had started to enable the planning and tender processes and construction was expected to begin before the end of the year.
The new Burke St station will operate during the busiest periods, 9am to 9pm seven days a week.
“It will be additional to Warragul’s long-standing 24-hour emergency response and the 24hour a day Drouin branch that has been permanently located in Darcan Way since last December”.
Mr Jemmett said the extra facility at Warragul would help ensure AV continues to provide the best service and care it can to patients in the Warragul and West Gippsland area.