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Radiation submission lodged

Jul 6, 2023 | Article, Health Care, Local Council, This Week's Issue

Naracoorte raised MLC Ben Hood, Deanne Carmondy, Richard Harry and Naracoorte's Lachlan Haynes on the steps of parliament house where an inquiry is underway regarding radiation services in the South East following a petition with 16,000 hard copy signatures.

By Chris Oldfield AN SA Legislative Review Committee inquiring into radiation therapy in the Limestone Coast is underway in State Parliament. A written submission by the Limestone Coast Radiation Therapy Working Group includes the awful experiences of many forced to travel to Adelaide, including Naracoorte’s “Lisa” and “Graham Hinze”. The contribution from Lisa involves a Naracoorte doctor who sent her straight away for scans after she presented with her breast “not feeling right”. She could not get all the scans done in Mount Gambier on the same day, so travelled to Adelaide and had all the procedures done there. “The following day the Naracoorte doctors rang with the bad news and made an appointment with Dr McLeay who visits the South East,” Lisa wrote in the submission. “I was lucky I got in the next day, he informed me it was cancer and the next journey starts. “I had more […]

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