New funding deal for trauma centre

DARWIN’s National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre has a new home at the Darwin Airport

Jodi-May Jones and Jody Bellette from the Darwin-based National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) begin packing their mobile hospital for deployment into Tacloban, Philippines, which has been devastated by typhoon Haiyan.

DARWIN’s National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre has a new home at the Darwin Airport.

The new location will put the emergency response organisation closer to the operations of the Royal Australian Air Force and Careflight.

Health Minister Greg Hunt will today tour the facility, which will have one of the NT’s biggest climate controlled warehouses.

The NCCTRC has also secured a new $67.6 million four-year funding deal with the Commonwealth Government which will allow it to continue to respond to national and international disasters and health emergencies.