The remote South Australian dialysis unit keeping Aboriginal patients on country

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Some Aboriginal dialysis patients of the remote APY Lands used to have to move over a thousand kilometres away from their community to get treatment, but this centre is helping them stay on country.

For four to five hours a day, three times a week as he goes through his dialysis treatment he watches the show, along with John Wayne and Clint Eastwood films.

The APY Lands, which stands for Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, is a remote Aboriginal-owned local government area in the north-west corner of South Australia. running dialysis centres in Aboriginal communities across the most remote parts of the country since 2004. Anangu woman Yanyi Bandicha, who is the director of the Anangu-led Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council, told SBS News the community had been fighting for a dialysis centre for a decade.

 

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