A MAN who nearly died in a road accident in 2008 has spoken of the importance of a new $36 million facility dedicated to acquired brain injuries being built in Victoria.
Simon Warlond is one of more than 1200 Victorians living with a brain injury caused by road trauma.
He has praised the new 42-bed facility, jointly funded by the federal and state governments, which will provide rehabilitative care to people with severe brain injuries.
"It is a very frightening thing to go through and it is so important to have a unit dedicated to ABI," Mr Warlond said.
The qualified welder was a passenger in a car that left the road and hit a tree.
He woke in a hospital bed surrounded by padded walls only to learn three weeks had passed.
After months of painstaking rehabilitation he attempted to return to his normal life but found he was plagued by fatigue and other health problems.
Assistant treasurer Gordon Rich-Phillips said people like Mr Warlond represented Victoria's hidden road toll.
"Apart from the physical and emotional distress, a severe brain injury can cost more than $2 million in care over a lifetime," Mr Rich-Phillips told reporters at a Melbourne hospital on Thursday.
The rehabilitation centre at Caulfield Hospital will provide long-term care and support to those with brain injuries.
It will include a four-bed transitional living service.
Construction will start in January and is expected to be completed in mid-2014.
Mr Warlond, who undertook art therapy as part of his rehabilitation, recently completed an arts diploma and has been accepted to complete a degree at RMIT.
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