Chapter 72 If You Want to Be Rich, Build Roads First

"How is the medical sector? How many hospitals were built last year?" Arthur asked.

Like education, medical care is a major issue related to people's livelihood. Similarly, this is also one of the important conditions for immigrants to choose their destination.

After all, no one wants to live in a place where education and medical care are very backward. Even if they don't consider themselves, they have to consider their families and descendants.

"Your Highness, so far, we have built a hospital in each of the six states. But because of the lack of medical equipment and doctors, most hospitals can only accept ordinary patients and cannot handle slightly more difficult diseases." Minister of Health Bradford Dillman said with a wry smile.

The medical sector is one of the least concerned sectors in Australia. In addition, Arthur did not make any additional investment, which led to a worse situation for the medical sector. Even if a hospital is built, there are not enough doctors to work and put the hospital into normal operation.

"Add medical majors to our technical schools. The medical industry is also an important part of Australia's development. We must also ensure that there are enough doctors in major hospitals in Australia to meet the medical needs of Australians. In addition, the pace of attracting talents from Europe cannot be stopped. The medical department can apply for funds and work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attract some medical talents from major European countries, especially the United Kingdom and Germany, to join us." Arthur thought for a while before speaking.

Medical care is one of the problems that must be solved as soon as possible. This is not only related to the survival rate of newborns in Australia, but also to the livelihood of all Australians.

"Yes, Your Highness." Bradford Dillman responded quickly with some expression.

"The plan to build a hospital can be temporarily stopped. It is enough for us to have one hospital in each state for the time being. I hope that the next work of the medical department can be invested in the construction of small clinics. I hope to see some small clinics in every city. This is the factor that can improve the medical environment in Australia." Arthur said.

Although the medical care of the hospital can benefit more people, it also requires more medical talents to be invested in it.

Moreover, for Australians, sometimes it is not that there are no hospitals to see a doctor, but that there is no money to see a doctor.

If the innate problem of poverty cannot be solved, even if there are hospitals everywhere in Australia, it is impossible to solve the medical problem.

Compared with hospitals, the scale of clinics is very small. Generally speaking, one doctor is enough.

And the cost of clinics is less than that of hospitals. Although they cannot solve larger and difficult diseases, Australians generally do not have the money to see a doctor, right?

"Yes, Your Highness." Bradford Dillman nodded as expected and responded.

In order to completely improve the medical environment, in addition to attracting a large number of medical talents from Europe, Australia must also be able to train some medical talents every year.

According to the current development of Australian National University, it will take at least several years or even ten years of investment to hope to alleviate the problem of insufficient medical talents.

Therefore, building small clinics is a more effective method. At least under the premise of talent vacancies, it is a more reliable choice than building hospitals.

"Continue to report!" Arthur signaled.

"Your Highness, in addition to the above, our public security environment, agricultural land, road construction and industrial development have also improved significantly. This is their summary report, please take a look." Prime Minister Evan handed over some information and said respectfully.

When a country completes unification from a divided state, its economy and various constructions will also usher in vigorous development.

This is the case with Australia. After completing the unification, the originally isolated states also began to have full economic and cultural exchanges, which correspondingly promoted Australia's economy and other developments.

Arthur nodded.

He knew the situation of the Ministry of Public Security. With the rectification of the original police industry, the establishment of new police stations, and the training of excellent reserve police, it is natural that the public security environment has improved.

In addition to these, national unification and government improvement are also important factors in improving public security conditions.

Chaos will breed darkness. Once the country is unified, power is re-centralized in the government, and new policies are promulgated, darkness can only shrink in the corner.

"How many planting areas do we have at present? Can each immigrant be allocated a certain amount of land?" Arthur asked.

For an immigration country like Australia, the most effective way to attract immigrants is to allocate land and real estate.

In addition to being caught in the vortex of war, the reason why Europe broke out an immigration frenzy was that the increasing population led to land scarcity, which was also an important factor.

For a country like Australia with a very large land area and very few people, the least lacking thing is land resources.

If more immigrants can be attracted by allocating land, it is definitely a method with more advantages than disadvantages.

"Your Highness, at present, our new immigrants can be allocated about ten acres of land on average, but most of them are wasteland, which needs to be reclaimed by immigrants themselves." Minister of Agriculture Henry said.

The small population also leads to a disadvantage, that is, even if there is a large amount of land area to be allocated to immigrants, due to the lack of population, many of the allocated lands are uncultivated wastelands, which need to be reclaimed by immigrants themselves.

"We can increase the distribution of land appropriately and provide certain assistance to these new immigrants. The area of ​​agricultural arable land needs to continue to expand so that we can feed more people." Arthur nodded and said.

The proportion of Australia's available arable land to the total land area is very small, but because Australia has more than 7 million square kilometers of land, there is still a lot of available arable land in fact, and it still has great development potential.

"Yes, Your Highness." Henry nodded and replied.

"How is our road construction going? What are the plans for highways and railways?" Arthur looked at the Minister of Transport, Conlet, and asked.

As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you must build roads first. The development of transportation also determines the speed of economic and industrial development to a large extent.

After having the two talents of Benz and Diesel, the development of automobiles will surely usher in very rapid changes.

Under this premise, Australia's road construction must also be put on the agenda. We can't let those unreliable cars run on dirt roads. Frequent problems may make those car owners cry.

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