Region Riverina: New facilities to offer much needed treatments to the Riverina's veterans and first responders

Wagga will soon open an innovative multidisciplinary facility that provides sorely-needed holistic health treatments to veterans and first responders.

Pro Patria Property Trust is transforming the Carmelite Monastery in Ashmont into the Pro Patria Centre – a clinical treatment support site for veterans, defence and emergency support personnel.

Wagga City Council approved the renovations for the Pro Patria Centre which, upon completion in six to eight weeks, will make the facility fit for purpose for the doctors and psychiatrists waiting to provide their services to veterans and first responders.

Pro Patria Property Trust Trustee Secretary Alan Lean said it was essential to get the renovations done as soon as possible as the veterans in the regions are being “randomly serviced by a whole range of different things”.

“One of our veterans is being treated on the Gold Coast away from family for long stretches of time,” Mr Lean said.