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By Nasik Swami: It’s an unusual story—one we hardly get to hear or read about in Naracoorte. It’s a story of our small community and our people coming together to help raise funds to alleviate the sufferings of women and children in a community and country not part of Australia—Mengaumenau, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Imagine finding yourself in a place where there is no one at all to help you deliver your baby. No facilities of any kind. No medicines of any kind. And to get to the nearest help, you have to walk two hours to reach the side of a fast-flowing river that is 60m across. To get to the other side of that river, you will have to get help to build a raft—or you could chance it on the huge vine footbridge that the villagers built. A woman who recently tried it fell through the rotten […]

By Chris Oldfield: A COMPLAINT has been lodged against the Adelaide-based chairman of Limestone Coast Local Health Network (LCLHN), Dr Andrew Saies, over his alleged conduct towards SE cancer patients. Among claims against Dr Saies are allegations he comes from a position of privilege by suggesting financial issues confronting SE cancer patients travelling to Adelaide and unable to work for many weeks or months could easily be nullified if they took out income insurance.  The orthopaedic surgeon has rejected as “unfair” the complaints made by LC Radiation Therapy Working Group and says the LCLHN board “is committed to improving outcomes for all cancer patients in the Limestone Coast”. The alleged conduct of Dr Saies is contained in a letter to Health Minister Chris Picton and copied to Premier Peter Malinauskas. The letter is signed by Naracoorte’s Lachlan Haynes on behalf of Limestone Coast Radiation Therapy Working Group, of which he […]