Health
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Aged-care sector gets new support workers
SUNITAFE is hoping to help ease the pressure of workforces shortages in aged care with a group of newly qualified individual support workers. As the…
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Cupper lists electorate’s health priorities
VICTORIA’S new Health Minister, Mary-Anne Thomas, has been handed a list of local health priorities by member for Mildura Ali Cupper. Ms Cupper said that while the…
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Wentworth Hospital site to be part of $30m redevelopment plan
THE existing Wentworth Hospital site will be transformed as part of a $30 million Wentworth Health Service redevelopment to enhance health services and facilities for…
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Robotic surgical assistant’s remote mission
IN a remarkable health-care coup for a remote region where many patients must travel far away for even some of the most common operations, Mildura…
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Prostate cancer support returns
SUNRAYSIA’S Prostate Cancer Support Group is back up and running. After a long two years of waiting for approval to return, due to a hiatus…
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This mum and her kids need your help
DEBILITATING complications from two brain surgeries have not stopped Elizabeth Miller from being a dedicated mum to her four children aged under eight. But with…
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MP worried about all-or-nothing tone of hospital debate
ALI Cupper says she will support a redevelopment of Mildura’s existing hospital site, instead of a completely new facility, if that is what’s recommended in…
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‘I find myself crying constantly’ – School rallies behind MND grandmother
THE Red Cliffs East Primary School community rallied together last week to show their support for local grandmother and motor neurone disease sufferer, Robyn Piper. The…
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Mildura MP calls for more paramedic roles
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper is calling upon the State Government to commit to continuing the provision of advanced paramedic roles in rural and regional…
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Heartbreaking disease that drove a family’s hunt for food
SUPPLY shortages have had an effect on everyone, but for one Mildura family it cut off supply of the only food their daughter could eat.…
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Need for new Mildura hospital is critical, say senior doctors
MILDURA’S top medical experts say the region needs a new hospital built from scratch on a greenfields site, and that a redevelopment of the present…
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Vax clinic to close in Mildura
AFTER administering 17,000 COVID vaccinations over the past year, Sunraysia Community Health Services will wrap up its Thirteenth Street vaccination clinic on Saturday. The move…