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Ben’s running for lost brothers

PAIN, like love, Ben Welch knows only too well, can be a powerful motivator. And Ben and his family, well, they know all about pain. Which is why he will be outside Mildura Hospital at 4.44am on Monday to start a 380-kilometre run up the...

02 Mar 2025
Education

Student to help out in Sweden

A LA Trobe University nursing and midwifery student will be travelling to Sweden next week to take part in an international placement program. Pyper Dalla Santa will be undertaking a major birth suite placement which will allow her to complete the...

01 Mar 2025
Community

Greeks help skin cancer fight

THE Greek Community of Mildura and District has made the final - and largest - donation from the sale of its Elizabeth Avenue community hall. The group, which is in the process of winding down, yesterday presented $800,000 to Mildura Base Public...

01 Mar 2025
Health

Helping bear the challenge

MONASH University’s Teddy Bear Hospital will be hosting a community event at the Sunraysia Farmers Market on SaturdayThe student-lead, not-for-profit effort aims to reduce white coat anxiety, or the fear of going to the doctor or hospital, in...

01 Mar 2025
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13 Feb 2020
Community

Big step for Little Sky Eyes

MORE than 300 people are heading along to the inaugural Purple Gala Ball for the Little Sky Eyes foundation this Saturday and raising money to support Australian families affected by Dravet Syndrome and other rare epilepsies as part of the...

27 Feb 2025
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Health

Home is where the hub is

A HOLISTIC place-based organisation with roots in Robinvale has introduced a free walking group to its program roster to encourage residents to move in a fun and social setting. Known as Our Place. the effort was designed to support the education...

25 Feb 2025
Health

Good to see your back

A MEDICAL massage therapist has returned to the same physiotherapy centre in Red Cliffs where she completed work experience 25 years ago. Jessica de Tarczynski was in Year 9 when she felt her calling as a profession was in the medical healing...

24 Feb 2025
Health

Rehab centre views aired

A VOCAL crowd aired their objections and support of a $36 million alcohol and other drugs treatment facility in Merbein during a community information drop-in session on Thursday. Representatives from the Health Department, Victorian Health Building...

22 Feb 2025
Health

Refugee soars with medi-flight support

A YOUNG Congolese refugee with an immunocompromised condition has received specialist care thanks to resettlement and humanitarian agency AMES Australia and medical charity Angel Flight. Aisha Masumbuko, who arrived in Australia with her family in...

22 Feb 2025
Health

Plan for more nurses, midwives at Base

THE Victorian Government has announced plans to lift the minimum nurse and midwife to patient ratios, and will spend $101.3 million to help hospitals with hiring and rostering. Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said the changes to the Safe Patient...

21 Feb 2025
Health

Nurses and midwives welcomed

TWENTY new nursing and midwifery graduates have been welcomed to the team at the Far West Local Health District, and the hope is they’ll provide a boost to health services locally. Of the 20 graduates, three are local nurses with the remaining 17...

21 Feb 2025
Community

Future of healing centre uncertain

THE future of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that aimed to prepare Aboriginal men to re-enter the community in a “healthy and proactive way” is unknown following its sudden closure last year. The Wiimpatja Healing Centre had been lauded by...

19 Feb 2025
Health

Moving ahead despite disease

A LOCAL personal trainer wants to spread awareness of a rare disease he was diagnosed with that can severely affect motor function. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy affects between only 0.7 and 10.3 people per...

17 Feb 2025
News

Effort aimed at preventing harm

NEW Flip the Vape billboard and bus ads have popped up in Mildura as part of a statewide anti-vaping and anti-smoking campaign aimed at young Indigenous people. The campaign has been launched by The Koori Way, a Victorian-wide anti-tobacco and...

15 Feb 2025
News

Japanese Encephalitis virus warning

THE Royal Flying Doctor’s Service has encouraged residents throughout New South Wales to remain vigilant for Japanese Encephalitis. JE is spread by mosquitos that have bitten an animal carrying the virus and then bite a human. Most who contract the...

14 Feb 2025
Health

Base ED feeling patient pressure

MILDURA Base Public Hospital’s emergency department is trailing the state average on wait times but ahead on ambulance transfer metrics, new data shows. The Victorian Agency for Health Information has released its December quarter numbers for...

14 Feb 2025