DELORAINE HOSPITAL has been allocated $238,000 for infrastructure upgrades from the State Government’s $15m Rural Hospital and Ambulance Station Fund. The money will pay for a range of upgrades at the hospital, including a new recreation area, physiotherapy space and kitchen improvements. Close to $7m of the fund has already been allocated to projects planned to commence shortly or currently under way in district hospitals and health centres in Deloraine, Devonport, Campbell Town, New Norfolk and on the Tasman Peninsula. The government claims the upgrades will create around 180 jobs.