Health professionals from Doomadgee have described the communication breakdowns and lack of resources in the remote Queensland Gulf town that lead to the death of three young women from a disease that was eradicated in non-Indigenous Australian communities in the 1950s and 60s.
Medical staff in the Queensland Gulf community of Doomadgee have labelled the remote health situation as a "national disgrace" and the local hospital as "dysfunctional" at an inquest into the deaths of three young Indigenous women.
They said they used personal and professional development leave to run RHD screening programs across northern and western Queensland, and that staff and expenses were largely self-funded or assisted by donations. The adequacy of screening for RHD and the public health, education/prevention and follow up provided in Doomadgee regarding Acute Rheumatic Fever and RHD
Locum Mary Anderson, who treated Betty on the night of her death at Doomadgee Hospital in September 2019, said when she arrived at work Betty's heath had already rapidly deteriorated.After beginning on country, the Inquest has been held in Cairns, where family and medical staff gave evidence
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