Physicians at one of the state's most rundown medical facilities have expressed much anger at plans by the State Government to spend as much as $1.5 Million in order to provide a new roof for the hospital's operating theaters, three weeks after a review claimed that the facility was unsafe and should undergo a renovation.

Carmel Tebbutt, the Health Minister, yesterday announced funds for the Hornsby Kur-ring-gai Hospital, to help with the rebuilding.

She shared that she had taken "engineering advice" and decided that the roof should be replaced, instead of continuing to try and fix it, but Richard Harris, the Chairman of the hospital's medical staff council, has stressed that the decision has managed to make the doctors "cranky and frustrated".

"They are putting a new roof on a complex which should be bulldozed and it is costing them exactly the same amount of money needed for the next stage of planning - presumably because they have no intention of rebuilding the hospital. They didn't ask us our opinions. This is a waste of money and is adding to the frustrations of staff and the community", he said.

The doctors have been campaigning for a new hospital, and are upset that only a leaky roof is being fixed. ''This is yet another Band-Aid and we've had enough'', Dr Harris said.