Health

  • Hospital will cut emergency care

    FEDERAL Government funding cuts have forced Colac Area Health to permanently close the hospital’s overnight urgent care service.

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  • Blood donation plea from sick toddler’s family

    COLAC district toddler William Reilly has spent a third of his life in hospital and has had 33 blood transfusions.

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  • Cancer scare fails to stop experienced bowler

    SEEING in the new year had special meaning for Camperdown bowler John Leighton, after doctors told him he might die before 2013.

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  • Health warning as temperature heads towards 40 degrees

    COLAC and district is in for a heatwave in the next two days, with authorities issuing health and fire warnings.

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  • Colac’s ice addiction could spread disease

    A COLAC drug counsellor fears the region could have a hepatitis outbreak due to the rising popularity of the drug ice.

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  • Firefighters rescue child from locked vehicle

    COLAC firefighters broke a window to rescue a child locked in a car this week.

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  • Ice epidemic stretching services

    COLAC and district drug users are increasingly getting hooked on the drug ice, paying up to $300 a hit and stretching support services.

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  • Final piece of fitness jigsaw

    COLAC will soon have a warm-water hydrotherapy pool after receiving the “final jigsaw piece” of funding for Bluewater Fitness Centre’s upgrade.

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