A western Victorian hospital's plea to have its "horrendous" infrastructure upgraded will be answered if the Liberal-Nationals win next month's election, according to the state opposition.
The Coalition has pledged $17 million for a new emergency department and intensive care unit at the Hamilton Base Hospital.
The hospital made headlines yesterday after it released a video on social media calling for the funding, after almost a decade of unsuccessful lobbying.
Hamilton Base Hospital chief executive Rohan Fitzgerald said the current infrastructure is "third-world" and "an accident waiting to happen."
Opposition health spokeswoman Georgie Crozier says the Coalition's pledge has no link to the chief executive's past Liberal ties.
"Absolutely not; he's the CEO of a local hospital and he's been the champion for the communities' needs," she said.
"What he is doing, what the doctors and nurses in the video are doing, is a plea for help from government.
"They are highlighting what's happening behind the hospital walls and I think it's tremendously courageous to speak out.
"It's an indictment that a health service has to go to this level for there to be some attention."
Ms Crozier said the announcement wasn't prompted by the hospital's video.
She insisted the party had no involvement in the video.
"This has been planned for weeks," she said.
The hospital has fundraised $15 million for the $32 million upgrades.
Merger could be reviewed
A few hours north in the Western district, the Horsham hospital wants what Hamilton wants.
But the Coalition stopped short of promising its long-awaited upgrades, which were first proposed by the Wimmera Health Care Group before a controversial amalgamation with Ballarat.
Ms Crozier said she would review the merger if appointed health minister.
"We've heard the services are declining; if that's the case then the merger, in my view, is not working," Ms Crozier said.
"I want to understand exactly what's going on with these mergers."
On Thursday the Liberal-Nationals also promised $7 million for a new GP clinic for Eastern Grampians Health Service's Willaura campus, as well as $6.65 million for the Terang-Mortlake Health Service to fund a community health centre and ambulance station.
Premier Daniel Andrews was asked if a re-elected Labor government would match the funding but did not respond to the ABC's questions.
