August 5, 2016
A foundation to support fundraising for the new Lady Bjelke-Petersen Community Hospital will be launched later this month to coincide with the official opening of the Kingaroy health facility.
Chairman, former South Burnett mayor Wayne Kratzmann, said the “South Burnett Community Hospital Foundation Limited” had been registered as a charity and all donations to it would be tax deductible.
The Foundation will be used as the vehicle to administer the $600,000 donation received from businesswoman Gina Rinehart, and will also organise fundraising events in its own right.
Mr Kratzmann said he wanted to emphasise that all money raised by the Foundation would be be used to support the hospital, and all equipment purchased would always belong to the South Burnett community, not South Burnett Day Hospital which is the hospital operator.
The Foundation will be launched on August 22 alongside the official opening ceremony at the hospital by recently elected Member for Maranoa David Littleproud.
Lady Bjelke-Petersen and members of the Bjelke-Petersen family have been invited to attend, and Mr Kratzmann said he was hopeful that representatives from Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting would also be present.
Although the official opening is on August 22, the hospital – which is already becoming known informally as the Lady Flo Hospital – has been receiving patients for several weeks.
Dental patients underwent surgery in May under contract to Queensland Health, and private surgical lists began on July 21.
Two nurses have also undergone oncology training ahead of the staged introduction of cancer treatments.
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