OPPOSITION claims that sick Victorian kids are being forced to wait due to delays in building a children's hospital are wrong and hypocrisy in the extreme, the health minister says.
Baulderstone Pty Ltd will build the 230-bed Monash Children's Hospital, with construction to begin mid-next year, it was announced on Sunday.
But opposition health spokesman Gavin Jennings says the hospital should be being finished now, not being started, with the government promising to deliver it in its first term.
"Families who have been waiting for better care for their children, continue to wait," he told reporters.
"Families are waiting longer than they should have."
Health Minister David Davis said the government had promised to start building the hospital in its first term.
He said Labor's delay claims were wrong and "hypocrisy in the extreme" because they failed to build the hospital in 11 years in government.
"(Now Opposition Leader) Daniel Andrews was parliamentary secretary for health first and health minister later and he allocated not one cent to build the Monash Children's Hospital," Mr Davis told AAP.
He said the need for a dedicated children's hospital in Melbourne's southeast was first identified a decade ago.
"This is an important hospital for Melbourne's southeast, a hospital that we look forward to seeing in operation," Mr Davis said.
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