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After a 10-year battle by elders and renal health workers in central Australia, the first remote South Australian dialysis clinic officially opened its doors this week at Pukatja (Ernabella), an Anangu community about seven hours south-west of Alice Springs. Seven patients, who were previously living in Adelaide, Port Augusta and Alice Springs for treatment, have …

The rising rate of rheumatic heart disease in the Northern Territory is a “bloody health emergency”, the head of the top end’s biggest Aboriginal health service says. The number and rate of diagnoses of acute rheumatic heart fever doubled inthe four years to 2017, according to a study released on Friday by the Australian Institute …