00:02A sod turn more than seven years in the making.
00:07The new Statewide Eating Disorder Centre at the REAP Hutt was announced in 2019, a state
00:13and federal partnership with mental health charity Breakthrough, but it's been hit with
00:17repeated delays and budget blowouts.
00:19Some of the work that needed to be done on the heritage component of the building was
00:23an issue.
00:24The other thing that's been an issue is the global increase in construction costs.
00:28Would we have wanted to have it finished earlier?
00:30Of course everybody would want to, but we're working in an environment that's enabled us
00:33to actually make meaningful change.
00:35The facility now due for completion in October next year.
00:39Patients like India Dodd have had to go interstate for treatment.
00:42She says the centre will be a game changer.
00:45It has been a gap kind of missing the residential facility in South Australia so I think we've
00:49made some really great steps forward.
00:51Demand for eating disorder care in SA has risen sharply in recent years from 186 referrals
00:58in 2014 to more than 700 last year.
01:02Huge demand also at hospitals in Adelaide's North.
01:05The AMBOS union says at one point last night 30 Priority 2 cases were left waiting for an
01:10ambulance, some for hours.
01:13We are seeing a 29% increase in calls to triple zero, a 28% increase in walk-ins.
01:21It's up to the government really to be acting to make sure that we can alleviate some of
01:26that pressure.
01:27A familiar story in a high pressure environment.
01:30It's up to the economic development.
01:32That's a major area of government.
01:34The government needs to make the environment for those who are outside.
01:34The government needs to make sure that they might be leading the environment.
01:34They may have a natural area of safety and safety, but, as an advocate for them, they
