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Liberals pledge new Barossa hospital

The Liberals have pledged to build a $35 million hospital to serve the Barossa Valley region.

Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond says hospitals at Angaston and Tanunda are out-dated, with facilities which are not up to standard.

She says a new 55-bed hospital will be built at Tanunda if the Liberals win the South Australian election on March 20.

It would have an emergency department, operating theatres and a maternity ward and be built on land provided for free by the Barossa council.

Liberal health spokesman Duncan McFetridge says a new Tanunda hospital should have been built years ago.

"We had a hospital signed off by the Liberal cabinet in 2001 at $15 million, now we've got to spend $35 million to deliver a similar project," he said.

"It's because the government has procrastinated for the last eight years. All they've done is some patch-ups and paint jobs on our hospitals that should have been replaced years ago."

Ms Redmond says part of the funding would come from selling the current Tanunda and Angaston Hospitals and the rest from savings achieved by rebuilding the Royal Adelaide Hospital on its current site, rather than a new one on the city railyards.

SA Health Minister John Hill says funding for a new Barossa hospital does not exist.

He insists the Liberals have their costings wrong.

Barossa mayor Brian Hurn is keen for Labor to match the Liberal funding pledge.

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