City seeks Hub health service preferences

THE City of Greater Bendigo has called on Marong residents to share their views on the types of allied health services they’d like to see operating from the new Marrungi Wayaparra Community Hub.

The hub, which houses a 99-place kindergarten, has an additional two consulting rooms that are suitable for use by a variety of health professionals.

The kindergarten, which opened in January, was constructed with $5.5 million in funding from the Victorian Government to help respond to unmet demand for three and four-year-old kinder places in the region.

CoGB community partnerships manager Amy Holmes said feedback received from the community will help the City understand what services would be most helpful for local families, and based on the responses, it will invite the requested services to use the rooms.

“While we will do our best to advocate for the services asked for, we cannot guarantee that every service will be available,” she said.

“Services could include things like art/creative therapies, audiology/hearing, dietetics/nutrition, exercise physiology, maternal and child health, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology/behaviour therapy, podiatry and physical intervention, social work/welfare support and speech pathology.”

The construction of the kindergarten building was the first stage of a two-stage project to establish the Marrungi Wayaparra Community Hub Marong.

Stage two of the project is not yet scheduled for delivery with timing subject to future funding.

Community members can provide feedback by completing a survey on the City’s Let’s Talk Greater Bendigo platform by Monday 9 March.