AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2008
Qld: Hendra clinic owner hopeful of govt funds
The owner of a bayside Brisbane veterinary practice at the centre of a Hendra virus
outbreak says he's hopeful the Queensland government will provide funding to allow the
clinic to remain open.
Redlands Veterinary Clinic owner DAVID LOVELL says his clinic's losing about 50-thousand
dollars a week.
He says he'll be forced to close it and sack his more than 30 staff if the government
doesn't step in.
Dr LOVELL says in effect the clinic's been taken over by the government as a quarantine station.
Primary Industries Minister TIM MULHERIN says they'll discuss ways the government might
continue to help the business at the meeting late this afternoon (1700 AEST).
Two clinic staff members .. including a vet and a senior vet nurse .. are in hospital
infected with the Hendra virus.
Four horses at the Redlands clinic and another two on a property near Proserpine in
the state's north have died from the virus.
AAP RTV jmm/pjo/tm/crh
KEYWORD: HENDRA (BRISBANE)
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