Preventable blindness and other eye conditions are being tackled head on in regional and remote WA, with a mobile eye health van seeing more than 1200 patients in its first six months.
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has partnered with the Lions Eye Institute to run a pilot project to test the procedures and protocols for delivering mobile health services across WA.
The Community Compact project seeks to detail how services...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has called on the Federal Government to act on
the recommendations of a recent report and increase funding for eye health among
Aboriginal people.
The PwC report found that more than 32,000 Indigenous Australians would go blind over
the next decade unless the Federal Government increased funding.
AHCWA said it was deplorable that a third of Aboriginal adults had never had even a
basic ey...
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