Health

  • Surgeon defends hospital chiefs

    A COLAC surgeon says Colac Area Health’s executive and board are doing an “excellent” job and says criticism of the decision makers is “totally unjustified”.

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  • Model to save Colac emergency care

    A STEERING committee has unanimously agreed on a model it believes will save Colac Area Health’s overnight urgent care service.

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  • Family evicted for ‘public safety’

    AUTHORITIES evicted a family from a derelict Colac district property “in the interests of public safety”.

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  • Commission will challenge church

    COLAC’S Catholic parish priest says he expects a royal commission into child sexual abuse will challenge the church.

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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Hospital’s board backs CAH chief

    COLAC’S hospital board has backed chief Geoff Iles after Australia’s nursing union called for his resignation.

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  • Toddler’s transplant gives family hope

    COLAC district toddler William Reilly has had a life-saving bone marrow transplant, but his family endures a tense wait to see if it succeeds.

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  • Colac nurses demand hospital chief’s head

    COMMUNITY lobbyists and Victoria’s nursing union have demanded the resignation of Colac’s hospital chief Geoff Iles.

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