Health
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Asthma and hay fever health promotion
WINTER frost is turning to spring sun, and Marraboor Pharmacy is reminding customers of the dangers of asthma as we enter the allergy season. Asthma…
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COVID-19 asymptomatic isolation cut to five days
THE isolation periods for COVID-positive cases will reduce from seven days to five for asymptomatic people. National Cabinet agreed to the changes this week after…
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Extended opening for vaccination clinic
BALRANALD MPS COVID-19 vaccination clinic will open Monday to Friday starting next week. The new hours will begin, Tuesday, August 30, from 11am to 5.30pm,…
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Helping send right messges
THERE are 1.2 million Australians with communication disability. Speech pathologists, like the team from Swan Hill District Health, know that good communication creates better communities.…
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Robinvale trains heart-starters
ROBINVALE residents are in one of the best positions to receive out-of-hospital treatment for a cardiac arrest, after the town recently became an accredited Heart…
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Learn signs of stroke
FOR Swan Hill resident Lorraine Taylor, her life “stopped and started all over again” when she suffered a stroke 30 years ago. She was left…
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The ‘tooth’ about rural dental health
SWAN Hill residents are waiting more than two years on average for general dental care amid calls for both levels of government to address the…
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Ambulance pressure tightens
THERE are no signs ambulance response times will improve anytime soon, according to Ambulance Victoria, as Swan Hill records its slowest response time in years.…
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Hospital in own comfort
SWAN Hill District Health can provide care within the comfort of your own home for certain services as part of its Hospital in the Home…
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Free boxes of masks to fight COVID spread
VICTORIANS will have access to more than three million free masks over the coming weeks as part of a push from the state government to…
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