Integrated eye health project for Central Australia
The federal government will invest $ 184 000 in the next 12 months to develop an improved model to provide eye care to people in Central Australia. The funds will employ a program manager for eye health as part of a broad partnership of government health and eye communities in central Australia, the Minister of Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, said today. The head of eye health program will seek to better coordinate the care of the eyes, the provision of services. One of the goals is to reduce waiting lists for eye surgery in Central Australia.This will be further meetings of the eye surgery in Alice Springs include hospital, said Mr. Abbott.The partnership includes the Commonwealth Government, the Fred Hollows Foundation, the Department of the Northern Territory Health and
Community Services, the Central Bank Australian Aboriginal Congress, Anyinginyi Aboriginal Health Corporation and the Foundation of the eyes. Central Australian Aboriginal Congress and Aboriginal Health Anyinginyi Company will work with the hospital to ensure that indigenous patients across the region are properly cared for before and after surgical procedures necessary.Brian Doolan, CEO of Fred Hollows Foundation, said the company has adopted a nonsense, as Professor Fred Hollows did things - practical solutions to health problems in Central Australia. All parties have come to the table and are willing to identify and break down barriers. There are certainly more difficult for people in places like Rio and taken for access to good eye health, as there are for the
residents of Double Bay, Sydney. These problems are exactly what we have to overcome together.The program covers an area of ​​1.6 million square kilometers in central Australia and is one of the largest geographically of integrated eye care in the world. The Northern Territory Minister for Health, Chris Burns, Fred Hollows Foundation praised for this new chapter in the long history of improving the health of Aboriginal The developing world faces cancer crisis
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