The Bargo community are being given a first look at the design for the new ambulance station.
Once complete, Bargo ambulance station will boost emergency and mobile medical care across the Macarthur region.
The complex will be located on Great Southern Road, Bargo.
The modern, purpose-built ambulance station will include internal parking for up to eight emergency ambulance vehicles, on-site vehicle wash facilities, administration and logistics areas, multipurpose spaces, staff amenities including a gym, and on-site parking.
Construction is expected to begin later this year, following planning approval and appointing a builder.
NSW Ambulance identified Bargo as a high priority location following a comprehensive service planning process using best practice modelling software to map Triple Zero (000) calls.
The new ambulance station will optimise response performance to better meet the emergency and mobile medical care needs of the local community.
“Local paramedics will have a purpose-built ambulance station to help them deliver the best possible emergency and mobile medical care to the local community when and where it is needed,’’ says State Member for Wollondilly Judy Hannan.
“The new ambulance station will bolster emergency care for the Bargo community and support existing ambulance stations in the local network including at Bowral and Picton.”
Bargo’s is one of 30 new ambulance stations and supporting infrastructure planned to be delivered across Sydney, the Central Coast, Newcastle, the Hunter and Illawarra regions over the coming years as part of the NSW Government’s $615.5 million NSW Ambulance infrastructure program to bolster frontline emergency services.
The Minns Government says it is also recruiting 2,500 additional NSW Ambulance staff including 500 paramedics to rural and regional areas, to boost emergency and mobile healthcare for our metropolitan and regional communities.
For more information visit: www.nsw.gov.au/ambulance-infrastructure-program