"It appears obvious to this court that there should be serious contemplation given to establishing a medically supervised injecting centre in or near Liverpool Hospital,"she said in her findings into Mr Bestrin's December 2016 death on Tuesday.
Ms Grahame,whose recent,separate call to roll-out pill testing at music festivals the state government has refused,acknowledged there were legal restrictions preventing another injecting centre outside of Kings Cross,"however,these are political issues which should not stand indefinitely in the way of sound health policy."
Mr Bestrin's mother,Lorena Bestrin,told the NSW Coroners Court such a facility could've given her son,who injected heroin alone using a clean needle acquired from the hospital,"a chance to live".
"The hospital gives out needles,for the greater good,but we are only doing half the job,” she later said.
Eight people have died in hospital public toilets in the past four years,half of them due to overdoses,while there have been 18 other incidents of people collapsing. Since Mr Bestrin's death,there have been six incidents of people becoming incapacitated after using drugs at Liverpool Hospital - four incidents in the same toilet Mr Bestrin was found in.
The inquest heard heroin is used heavily in the Liverpool area. There are about 3120 people in the South Western Sydney Local Health District on an opioid treatment program,which represents about 14 per cent of people in treatment across NSW.
Mark Sessions,the harm reduction manager for South Western Sydney Local Health District,which operates Liverpool Hospital,said he was aware injecting took place"probably within most of the toilets".