Senate debates

Monday, 23 November 2009

Questions without Notice

Dialysis Services in Central Australia

2:31 pm

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

What I can say about the $5.3 million which was committed at the election to provide additional renal dialysis services in the Northern Territory is that, with this funding, in the first quarter of 2010 a mobile dialysis service will be piloted in Central Australia. This will help improve access for people in remote communities without their having to travel to major centres for treatment. In addition, renal-ready rooms, to be co-located at community health centres, are also proposed for the communities around Maningrida, Lake Nash and—

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