MEMBER for Murray Helen Dalton has called for the splitting of the Murrumbidgee Local Health District "to provide proper local health care".

Mrs Dalton said she would move a motion to divide the MLHD into two districts, and create a new district called the Western Riverina Health District.

"The new Western Riverina Health District will cover Leeton to Balranald including Deniliquin, Jerilderie, ...