A remote community health worker says access to medical care was an ongoing issue in remote communities, especially during flooding events.
"The showers and storms will start becoming less frequent down through the southern parts.
"Up around that Timber Creek area, we will see showers and storms but we're not expecting anything like we saw when the ex-cyclone moved over that area."The community of Ampilatwatja — about 350 kilometres north-east of Alice springs and home to about 500 people — was cut off by both road and air for 10 days due to flooding brought by the former cyclone.
"Because we do not have a sealed air strip, there was no way we could get anybody in or out," she said.She said access to emergency medical services was an ongoing issue in remote communities, particularly during flooding events."People come out here to live because it's their country...but when they need services, they're very poorly served out here.""I was very surprised," she said.
He said both communities received supplies via air yesterday, after hot weather dried out their dirt air strips.
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