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Federal MP Mark Coulton says medical staff and patients are routinely putting their lives at risk by travelling huge distances to give and receive care in rural NSW.
He was speaking after the deaths of Andrew Salter and his wife Anita who travelled more than 200km to Dubbo Base Hospital in central west NSW because their local hospital in Condobolin had been downgraded.
They died on the return leg of the journey after their car crossed to to the wrong side of the road hit a concrete drain and flipped onto its roof last Friday.
The couple's 11-month-old baby who was receiving treatment for a respiratory illness at Dubbo survived the crash at Tullamore.
Mr Coulton says people are travelling big distances like this in rural NSW all the time.
