An information stand will operate in Parker Street on the afternoon of Thursday 27 June to inform residents about the new Cootamundra Ambulance Station to be built next year.
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The stand will be open from noon till 6pm, in front of The Base store next to the Woollies car park.
MP for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has encouraged anyone with questions to call in and learn more about the project.
At the site of the new station, at the rear of Cootamundra Hospital off Boundary Road, Ms Cooke yesterday unveiled an artist's impression giving paramedics a first look at the building bound to be their workplace in a year or two.
Ms Cooke recalled that during the state election earlier in the year she was outside the polling station in Cootamundra when a lady came up to her and said 'I just don't believe you're going to build a new ambulance station, this is just an election ploy'.
"She was extremely cynical about the whole process.
"I just smiled and said, 'you know what, if there's one thing we do really really well in the Cootamundra electorate it's new ambulance stations.'
"So I can assure you it will be happening, and I look forward to her coming when we've actually opened it."
Present at the unveiling were Mark Gibbs, southern zone manager of the NSW Ambulance Service, Anastasia Koutsmanis, Health Infrastructure project director, and Cootamundra-Gundagai mayor, Abb McAlister.
Mr Gibbs said the new station would deliver a better working environment for Cootamundra's team, tailored to their needs to serve the community and best enabling them to deliver mobile emergency care.
"Being co-located with the hospital will also bring our local healthcare providers closer together than ever before.
"As paramedics we take great pride in providing care in our communities."
Ms Cooke said Cootamundra's new ambulance station would be the sixth new one to have gone up in the electorate.
"I know the current station is well past its use-by date, and I can guarantee you won't know yourselves once you've been inside the new one," she told paramedics.
"I must commend all the partners - Health Infrastructure, NSW Ambulance, the Murrumbidgee Local Health District along with the Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council for working so hard and so collaboratively to bring this all together at this location, which is so ideally placed just next to the hospital.
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"we get such a great result when we all work together and as far as health infrastructure is concerned I've already identified some other sites we could hopefully move on to so I'm not done yet."
Mayor Abb McAlister said Cootamundra's paramedics did a fantastic job for the community and would hopefully be inspired by the new building.
The new station will include internal parking for up to four ambulances, administration and office areas, amenities, logistics and storage areas, relief accommodation, staff parking, a delivery and loading bay and an external wash bay.
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