Sam Gregory-Jones was the only registered nurse in her small country hospital when her son needed urgent treatment. But like so many other rural health centres, it didn't have the right dressings for his wounds.
Sam Gregory-Jones was the only registered nurse working in her small country hospital when her young son was brought in for urgent treatment.It costs $3 billion every year to treat people with such ailments
On that ill-fated evening, Thomas became one of an estimated 420,000 Australians who suffer from chronic wounds on any given day. "We were lucky because we have family in Sydney … just paying for the petrol five times was a big expense," she said. "I've got a patient at the moment, he's gone for a surf, he's stubbed his toe in the sand and it's turned into a horrifying wound," she said.
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