Health

  • New program targets youth mental health

    A NEW mental health program aims to fill a gap in services for Colac’s young people.

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  • Red Nose Day is personal

    BARONGAROOK’S Jeanette Roberts lights candles on a birthday cake every year for her daughter Madeleine, who would have been 16 years old next month.

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  • Simple thing makes big difference

    COLAC’S Shirley Bowen has tended to patients’ flowers at Colac hospital for 18 years.

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  • Two-year delay on water warning

    AUTHORITIES appear to have waited two years before issuing health warnings about water in Colac district’s Boundary Creek.

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  • Colac district workers have high health risk

    A SURVEY has found a majority of Colac district workers are at risk of developing type two diabetes.

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  • Hospital chief backs community boards

    COLAC Area Health has stood by its community-based board structure as the best way to deliver health services.

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  • Blood transfusions in ambulance chopper

    COLAC and district patients could benefit from the introduction of in-flight blood transfusions to the south-west air ambulance service.

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  • Hospital visit helps language students

    ENGLISH-as-a-second-language students spent two hours touring Colac’s hospital.

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