Cancer Care Western NSW Event

Cancer Care Western NSW is a not for profit organisation that has been set up to raise money for Care West Lodge NSW. You might well be asking what this lodge is for, well it will have a direct link and be supportive to patients requiring Radio-Therapy treatment at our new base hospital for Orange.

The Government has agreed to provide two linear accelerators to Orange therefore allowing country people the chance to be treated in rural NSW. This will of course be beneficial in reducing the amount of time spent travelling to and from Sydney or Canberra. Care West Lodge will be located near the hospital and accommodate those patients who need long stay.

Cancer Care Western NSW has been running for the past two years. Prior to that an Alliance was set up with interested community members. Some of these people are identified in the picture attached to this post. We even went as far as visiting the Radio Therapy unit at Wagga Wagga thanks to MP Russel Turner. I was one of those people that had a real need to engage with the progression of this service for Orange and felt very passionate to evolve a fair and equitable choice for rural and regional people when it came to patient care. It will still be several years before our unit is complete, in the meantime we will continue to fund raise for the accommodation and look forward to the day when it can be utilised.

There was a recent event held at Duntryleague Golf Club which informed people further about the work Cancer Care Western NSW does. If you are reading this post and feel that you could help with a donation or possibly be inclined to run a fundraiser then please do not hesitate to contact me via this post. I would be very happy to speak with you further about this very much needed facility.

"Everybody deserves the right to make a choice about their health care"