Tasmania - Asbestos contamination in an abandoned hospital at Queenstown have raised some concerns from its residents.

The Premier David Bartlett is planning to visit Devonport next week; to inspect a derelict maternity hospital at the centre of an asbestos scare but the Mayor of the West Coast Council Daryl Gerrity says Queenstown's old hospital is facing a similar problem.

Perhaps the Premier could do a lap via the west coast and solve our problems also, he said.

A resident said that the building has been boarded up for about five years and often visited by vandals.

In 2003, the State Government handed over $1.4 million for the cleanup of the former Burnie Hospital which was also contaminated with asbestos.

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