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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore

Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals to be split in two under expansion plan

Daniel andrews in high vis walking through tunnel
Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, tours the Arden Street Metro Tunnel station on Tuesday, which would service a new campus of the Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Emergency care and elective surgery would no longer be provided under one roof at Victoria’s Royal Melbourne and Royal Women’s hospitals as part of an expansion touted by the Andrews government as the nation’s largest hospital infrastructure project.

The state government on Tuesday committed to creating a new medical precinct to deliver non-urgent treatment near the inner north Melbourne site of the Arden train station.

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